Michele Saraiva

A humble street vendor of fried bananas, from a city in the Amazon rainforest region, has her routine changed when she meets a young reader on the bus on her way back home. From that moment on, she begins a new journey of discoveries, dreams and the challenge of finding her child's favorite book.

A boy adrift inside an abandoned shack in a river. A dead, decomposing horse and a man bathed in blood. Pesticides, crops, and trucks carrying timber. Naked and in a torrential downpour, a young man tries to walk along a dirt road.