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An extraordinary fish subverts the natural laws and terrorizes the popular imagination in Minas Gerais.

An empty area is covered, in a few moments, by currents of water coming from all sides, suggesting the beginning of a flood. Gradually, the volume and rhythm of the tides become more aggressive, in a movement that seems to drag everything towards the center.

A film that has waiting as its theme, registering it in its most varied manifestations. The waiting in a queue, the mystical waiting, the waiting for an actor to go on stage, the anguishing waiting for sleep, the waiting for hormonal effects in a gender identity adjustment. The time of waiting is confused with the time of life itself, in a world in which we are unlearning how to wait.

The room in which Gargamela sleeps mixes in with her dreamscape. A man enters and leads our way. Shot using a cell phone and digital video, the images explore dream-like narrative.