Marco Scarassatti

Water is virtually omnipresent in the landscape of Recife, yet it disappears from the taps in most homes. In those very same households, people forgo sleep on rainy nights, fearing they might be buried alive in a landslide.

Muanza, a woman born in the Kingdom of Kongo in the early nineteenth century and trafficked to Brazil, awakens to find herself in the present, roaming the streets of Rio’s rapidly changing port region, known as ‘Pequena Africa’, or Little Africa.