Stray Animals

While Pedro Américo denies having fabricated fake news, Paulo Setubal reveals the Emperor’s innermost secrets.

Rebeca is a shy 13-year old girl. She has just moved with her mother to an isolated neighborhood in a small town, near Rio de Janeiro. Since someone is breaking into empty houses, Rebeca is forbidden to go out and spends her days alone, watching from above the wall the street where she lives. Until she sees Mika, a girl of her age, skating down her street. Soon Rebecca finds out that Mika is a trans girl. All this time, she’s been stealing small feminine objects from the local houses. The girls are bound together. Their worlds collide.

Graça dreams of fire. When she wakes, she and her daughter, Duda, gather their few belongings and leave the apartment in the middle of the night. The building is occupied by homeless families. The fire breaks out on an uninhabited floor. Graça sets out with her daughter in search of a safe place to spend the night. The living and the dead follow in their footsteps.

Ce, a chubby eight-year-old girl, stumbles upon the body of dead woman. The corpse drastically changes the lives of both the girl and her older sister, Sara. While Cê communicates with the dead, Sara has to deal with harassment and the vulnerability of her body among the living.