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Shirley Paixão´s story is about a woman who protects her children by all costs.

After receiving a letter calling for a secret conspiracy meeting, a woman is mistaken for a controversial policy and kidnapped by a pair of revolutionaries with no money for Uber. The three end up living together and witnessing the end of the world, the alien invasion and military intervention together.

A young boy, who lives by the streets and is passionate about music, dreams about expressing yourself and playing in big stages - but his reality isn't as colorful as his dreams.

In this short film, the director invite us to drown into the immensity of stimuli and perceptions present in an anxiety crisis - in a reversed way. The body is present, but the mind keeps in a floating state.

The documentary explores the loneliness that black women face on the road to success, in the social relationships and environments they have experienced and attend, emphasizing the constant struggle against sexism and structural racism.

"Dull and uneventful days in my owner's house make life seem calm." It's what Dona Vanuza's cat thinks, day after day in the matron's senile routine. A feeling that ends when they feel their owner's delirious grief starts taking over.