José Umberto

Echoes from the Cinema Novo, stylized in photographic compositional experiments and montage, in the encounter of a migrant woman with a man carrying a rifle in the streets of the big city.

"The Flock – Steampunk Version" takes place in a semi-arid region of the Brazilian Northeast, beginning with the invasion of government troops – the infamous Volante – into the camp of a feared group of outlaws led by the notorious Captain. Under the command of the ruthless Shotgun, the soldiers kill the great leader and his companion, Maria. On the opposite bank of the river, a subgroup led by the respected bandit New Moon witnesses the massacre from afar. From that moment on, New Moon swears revenge, though his group also becomes a target of the violent Volante.

In a large house in Salvador lives a family: Hercules, Julia, two of the couple's nephews, Hercules' father-in-law, and two maids. Hercules is a farmer who is in a professional and marital crisis. The mystical figure of Calunga mysteriously appears in the big house. He causes deep transformations in the family. Calunga relates to the women of the house and shakes the established patriarchal structure.