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After his wife's death, Fernando becomes a quiet and introspective man who raises his son, Daniel by himself. Every night, while the boy is sleeping, Fernando "revives" his wife by touching her clothes and organizing her personal belongings. Paulo does not get along well with his mother-in-law, who judges him unprepared to raise the boy without help. Lonely, Paulo has to resist the advances of his recently divorced sister-in-law.
Cafundó is a 35 mm color film which blends fact with fiction in the life of João de Camargo, a former black slave (1858-1942, Sorocaba, Brazil) who, in his old age, works miracles and devotes himself to assisting others in order to attain his freedom. João de Camargo represents the genesis of religious and cultural syncretism in Brazil.
A mourning that cannot be ritualized on account of the pandemic places an estranged sister and brother inside the same apartment. Sandra welcomes the youngest family member to her home as these two people will ultimately discover they can forge new alliances against an outside world asphyxiated not only by a virus, but by a conservative wave that strives to stifle everything that exists outside the “norm”.
