Melissa Vettore

A seasoned couples therapist comes to realize she might need help with her own marriage after meeting a new pair of young clients.

Based on the play "Nuda" by Daniele Finzi Pasca, this audiovisual project combines the stage with the universe of cinema by mixing music, acrobatic gestures, images and storytelling.

This is the story of Vicente, a successful, married, economist with a nine-year-old son. It also tells the story of Antônio, the same man, living as a hugadores—one of the homeless, trash scavengers who live and work in Brazil’s enormous garbage dumps. Vicente seems to have it all, but as we watch his life begins to crumble little by little. Meanwhile, Antônio, already at rock bottom, struggles to rebuild his life.

An old man seeks for a new purpose to his life, trying to get accepted by reluctant ambulance crew, assisting homeless people.

In 1970, with the conflicts in Brazil due to political repression from the military dictatorship as a background, the inquisitive student Alice and the idealistic doctor Renato fall deeply in love. Their worlds are joined by passion, but they are kept apart for many years by family feuds and a country facing a turmoil that affects lives and dreams.

Singer Maysa defied the conventions of her time from the 1950s to the 1970s, becoming a star and living her romances and heartbreaks intensely.