O Esquema

A short film

Every morning Nivaldo washes his car, closes his eyes and cums.

Upon arriving in Pernambuco, north of Brazil, Mika (25), a young middle-class girl from Rio de Janeiro, gets close to an outsider group who lives luxuriously. As time goes by, Mika finds herself hiding her latent prejudices, which makes her develop a constant feeling of fear.

Haunted by the early loss of her son, Neta struggles to find peace while working as a housekeeper on a remote farm with her husband, Nelson. When the landowners arrive for the weekend, her buried pain is reawakened and ignites a spiral of revenge, leading to an inevitable confrontation between grief, power, and justice.

A small community of peasants in the countryside of Brazil is fighting for the right to land, work, justice and dignity.

Knowing where you come from is just as important as knowing where you are going. The memories and reflections of Otávio Sabino, a former employee of the Railway Network, through the eyes of Mery Lemos, his daughter and the film's director. The world seen from the window of a train in the Mata Norte region of Pernambuco, memory, nostalgia, rust, sounds, gears, critical reflection, music and poetry come together.