Anna Campos

After a heated family confrontation, Otávio runs away from home in the dead of night and crosses the city toward the local gay nightclub. Amid hazy lights and dreamlike encounters, he embarks on a spiritual journey that reshapes the way he sees himself.

As Lorena gears up for a make-or-break fight, she battles anxiety and a hostile environment, risking her sports sponsorship dreams.

André, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano’s house to pick up clothes and documents, André stumbles on a notebook, and it’s here that Araby begins — or, rather, transforms. As André reads from the journal entries, we are plunged into Cristiano’s life, into stories of his wanderings, adventures, and loves.

Yeda, the green-faced woman, sells homemade bread to support the house where she lives with her sick husband. Through the context of green-faced people, we know the reality of those who live on the fringes of a purple-faced society.