Rafa

The most suffocating is the awareness that nothing is happening. All the veins are drying without the blood running through them. I came to Barão Geraldo because things happen here. Here people love as much as dolls hang themselves and chicken are slaughtered to death. Would I still hang dolls and burn memories in the next 18 years? It astonishes me how less and less I do not care for things that are not my extension. Being my own destruction is the only way. Intimacy is a farewell. All I see is a lot water and all the colors are not enough. All forms of comunication are not enough for a lot of water.

Just before leaving to become a cadet candidate, Supriyasa (18) says goodbye to Asih (58), the mother who has raised him since he was a child. Before he goes, Asa’s memories take us back to when he and Revano (19) grew up being treated differently. Ano was shaped to fit Asih’s expectations, while Asa was shaped to find his own path. Now, as Asih lies ill, the two show the results of how they were raised, and Asa must choose between staying or moving on with his life.