Tagline:

A hybrid documentary film brings together three workers murdered in the 1988 strike in Volta Redonda (Brazil), revisits the city in ruins today and restores the culture of the local native peoples.

Synopsis:

Friends and factory workers William, Valmir and Barroso claimed better working conditions during the 1988 strike in the city of Volta Redonda. They were brutally murdered by the Brazilian Army in the largest strike in the history of the popular and working movement in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Through a documental language with fictional production and archive footage, the film allows these friends to meet again 35 years after their deaths to revisit the city, its neighborhoods and monuments. This way, the historical past of the city's growth (which begins with the steel mill construction in a originally indigenous territory) is investigated, as well as the labor movements in the 1980s. During this journey that takes place in the present days, they find a paradoxical city, in ruins, and with high rates of pollution in the quality of the air, which brutally affects the health of its dwellers who breathe steel dust found in the city's space, especially those who live in the Conforto neighborhood, which is located facing the factory's chimneys. Meaning "comfort", the real neighborhood in the city with a contradictory name will also be portrayed in the film by showing the daily lives of those who live in it. With the affectionate encounter among the three workers and the indigenous people who inhabited that territory, they rescue the culture of the Fluminense native peoples, the Puris and the Coroados, creating the possibility of a more dignified city for its inhabitants

Project representatives:

Renan Barbosa Brandão (Director, Screenwriter and Producer)
Sílvia Sobral (Producer)