Aldo Anísio

Honorio never knew peace. Pursued by conflicts that shaped his existence in the backlands, he finds a saving irony in his band of bandits: the discipline of war as a remedy for the chaos of the soul. The film follows his transition from a cornered countryman to a man who, finally, finds his place in the world — even if that place is under the stigma of a life with guns.

Mumbaca, a former soldier of a driving force who had become a bandit in the late 19th century, far from the crime and violence that spread throughout the Northeast, has his wife cruelly murdered by the notorious cangaceiro Alfinete. Lost in the inhospitable forests of the hinterland and separated by their craft, the two fight a particular battle while facing the inclement weather of nature and the limits of survival.