Gustavo Galvão

Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, 2019. Luiza, 27, receives a series of videos online from a woman she does not know. The images, filmed in Uruguay, are accompanied by the voice of a woman named Verónica, who recounts stories from her youth there. What at first seems to be a mistake gradually reveals a painful truth about Luiza’s family past: the mysterious Verónica has the same face as her late mother.

Late summer of 2007, South of Brazil. Joana, 13, wants to find out why her great-aunt Rosa died at 70 without ever having dated anyone. Encouraged by her friend Carolina, Joana starts an investigation about Rosa’s past. As she confronts the values of her community, Joana realizes that all the women in her family have a secret, while something hidden inside her also reveals. She plunges into her imagination to find answers while a large wind power plant is being built in their small town.

Karen sings and plays the trumpet in a vigorous rock band in Brasilia, but no one there is interested in it. At 27, she has lost hope in the city her grandfather helped to build. She follows in the footsteps of her ex-partner in the band, Artur, and tries her luck in Berlin.

Chiara is the matriarch of an Italian-descendent family torn apart. After her youngest son moves out, she decides to go along with Alfredo, her husband, on his trips as a salesman in the bars of Serra Gaucha. Their trust in each other breaks down when Chiara finds out about Alfredo's life on the road and he realizes she hides something too. A turtle and decks of cards with put their fifty-year relationship to the test.

In a mosaic of human relationships and day-to-day situations, men and women of different ages feel a pressing need to reinvent themselves. As they cross each other's paths, they all are at a turning point in their lives.

In a small elevator, a man and a woman prepare for a night out for two. And now? At night, anything can happen.

A small-scale romantic love story, shot with a digital camera in black & white and in a documentary style. We follow the conversation between two lovers, each on a different side of the world; he is in Recife, she is in Kyiv. On one side is dark, on the other light, but both experience the same emotions and hence feel nearness and contact.

Two women on the run from a fundamentalist revolution cross their paths in a house populated by memories of an old filmmaker.