guitar of the ocean

The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is headed by a matriarch anxiously waiting for the night to hear Carlos Lacerda. The intense emotional plot highlights the absurdity of the characters' behavior.

Jorge, a young widower, visits his wife's grave every year. On one of these visits, he finds a little box with a pen-drive and a strange note next to her tombstone.