A small group of artists travels the Brazilian backlands presenting a show. Upon arriving in a small village, they find an abandoned city with houses, a church, and a fountain spouting clean water, like a miracle of a biblical desert. Tired of and battered by their life as wanderers, the artists decide to settle in the village and start a new community, assigning themselves different roles from those they have played throughout their lives. This new arrangement, however, will reveal these artists the worst vices of the civilian life.
Direction
Weber turns barren landscapes into psychological pressure cookers
Acting
Lima Duarte's patriarchal delusion is quietly devastating
Cinematography
Harsh light that makes paradise look like purgatory
Director
Guilherme Weber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'sertão' setting evokes Brazilian modernist literature like Graciliano Ramos, where harsh landscapes mirror spiritual desolation.
The character names (Hércules, Draco, Alma) deliberately invoke classical archetypes that collapse under mundane human weakness.
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