Stela, a young Brazilian actress, decides to make a work on the letters exchanged between Latin American plastic artists in the 70s and 80s. She travels to Cuba, Mexico, Argentina and Chile looking for her works and testimonies about the reality they lived during the dictatorships that most of these countries faced at the time. In the midst of the investigation, Stela discovers the existence of Ana, a young Brazilian artist who was part of this world, but disappeared. Ana went from southern Brazil, from a small town in the interior to Buenos Aires. Obsessed by the character, Stela decides to find her and find out what happened to her.
Direction
Murat blurs fiction and documentary until neither feels safe.
Writing
Letters read aloud carry the weight of silenced lives.
Acting
Rabello's obsession becomes indistinguishable from our own.
Director
Lúcia Murat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film operates within Latin America's 'memory cinema' tradition, where personal excavation becomes political testimony against official amnesia.
Director Lúcia Murat herself was imprisoned during Brazil's dictatorship — Stela's search mirrors her own lifelong reckoning with state violence.
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