Beatriz Bracher

The film follows the daily lives of residents of a community, made up of two favelas and a housing complex in São Paulo, which is about to undergo an urbanization process. However, possible urbanization generates resistance from residents of the most valued area of the neighborhood, in a movement known as “Not in my backyard”.

Violeta is a married dentist on a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the cell she enters in despair. The message of her husband, Djalma, says he is leaving her and going to another city.

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.

Valter's life turns upside-down when a gang of smalltime criminals move in next door. Valter's wife Iara wants something to be done about their new neighbors whos nigthtly activities does not allow them to sleep. Valter just wants to be left alone.