Gustavo Spolidoro

The film tells the story of sixteen people in the hottest day of the year in the city of Porto Alegre.

Porto Alegre, nowadays. At one of the most known streets of Porto Alegre, in exactly 11´10", people pass one another, interact, go on about their and our lives. Fiction and reality working side by side and vice-versa.

Five directors with five completely different cinematic styles go on an affectionate journey through each one of the five states bathed by the gigantic São Francisco River. Faith, passions, legends and the search for survival in the riverside communities of this river full of colors, which cuts through the dry hinterlands and flows into the exuberant sea of Northeastern Brazil.

Five adolescents in a conservative community experience strange transformations in their bodies. Faced with rejection in the town and the fear of adult life, thye must decide if they accept their dragon aspect or conform to the tedium and local conventions. The Dragons is an immersion in the fantastic universe do writer Murilo Rubião.

In Porto Alegre, the unemployed Ciro has a dull life in a simple apartment with a nameless stray dog that he had found on the streets. Ciro is supported by his parents and works every now and then in translation of Russian. When he meets the aspirant actress Marcela, who dreams on traveling to other places, they immediately fall in love for each other. However, Marcela has a lymphoma and travels for a treatment, and alone Marcelo becomes depressed and returns to his parents home.

He should flee, he should resist. But this man accepts - no - embraces the fate that comes to him in thundering Dolby Surround.