Guilherme Félix

A lumberjack’s long-lasting solitude is disrupted once a man shows up at his house asking for water.

This remake of the 1940 film with the same name tells the story of a theatre company, its men and women in love, mistakes and misunderstandings. Chico loves Tatão, who is courted by Artur. Graça loves Chico, but doesn't know he loves Tatão. Santana writes a play for the Grandelinhas that will serve as a guide to Chico passion and convince Tatão that he is a rich count. The play is then staged and they all end up in prison.

Alice, a recently widowed director, is alone on her grief after her daughter leaves home. Alice clings to the only structure she has, a fragile foundation at risk of collapsing: an essay film project, about first loves, dependent on funding. Suddenly we enter in another dimension, another place and without prior notice we are in the film conceived by the director.

Joana, mother to Vicente, is slowly transforming into a woman-wolf hybrid. Vicente, who has been feeling more and more distant from his mother, lives through a brief event that separates this day from others, gaining hope that the relationship between the two isn’t doomed, and imagines how their joint healing process would be.