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Documentary about a region in Northeast Brazil, situated in an area subject to severe drought, and the evolution of its economic activities.
In the hinterland of Paraíba, the small wooden mills powered by animal traction, called “bolandeiras”, are doomed to disappear.
Documents the arrival of progress with the construction of the Belém-Brasília highway, to improve the living conditions of the people in the cities in the interior of the country. It also presents interviews with people from the region, who express their opinion about the benefits brought by the highway.
When bandits take the town of Sertânia, Antão gets shot, arrested, and left to die. Bleeding out, Antão's delirious mind begins to recall the events that led up to the incident through a sequence of increasingly unreliable fever dreams.
Michelle, a 10-year-old survivor of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, attempts to escape both her past and her new home when she learns that her "new" family is not what they seem.
