Erasto Vasconcelos

Erasto Vasconcelos, a poet who perceives life, echoes the "Pernambuco-ness" of what surrounds us: the river, the birds, the mangrove creatures, the trees, what is planted for food, the people who sing to us, and the nursery rhymes.

The boy Francisco spent his days accompanying his father at work, or rather, on the roads. The man is a driver of the imposing Big Jet, a pickup truck used to clean the city's cesspools without basic sanitation. But the boy is more interested in the ideas of his uncle, a libertarian and anarchist artist. As he discovers his first love, Chico realizes the vocation to become a poet.

Jéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with sexual tourism. Then, she meets Mark, a German tourist, and falls in love with him.