Maurício Marques

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

In a nearly empty jury courtroom, a Black man awaits a trial. Another stranger, who is missing a leg, arrives and, after being offered a seat, asks to be insulted. His request disrupts the conventions of an apparently ordinary situation, setting in motion a confrontation in which dignity, offense, and the limits of social interaction take on absurd dimensions.