Pulmão de Pedra

The Paraíba backlands during the civil-military dictatorship of the 1960s. The boy Teobaldo faces the struggle between desire and repression when an enigmatic American researcher arrives at the Research Center of the National Department of Works Against Drought (DNOCS).

There are many ways to overcome the losses and drop-outs of childhood. Three boys reinvent the concept of family to face the traumas of their lives.

The cycles of human occupation in one place: the rock inscriptions crystallized in the landscape as the last memory of an extinct people, the late afternoon ritual of an elderly couple, and the new times with other habits and customs brought by the dish.

Fire liquefies what is solid. Fire melts human illusions.

When principles conflict with the rights of others, there is only one way out. *Film part of the 8 by 8 project: Renewal of the Super-8 cinema cycle in Paraíba.