Áurea Martins

Brief view of the life of a Rio night artist.

The paths of two neighbors (one, a practitioner of an Afro-Brazilian religion, and the other, a protestant) start to cross when a leakage opens a hole between the wall dividing their two homes.

Muanza, a woman born in the Kingdom of Kongo in the early nineteenth century and trafficked to Brazil, awakens to find herself in the present, roaming the streets of Rio’s rapidly changing port region, known as ‘Pequena Africa’, or Little Africa.