Sudoeste

Eduardo Nunes : 2012
Southwest

Set in a domain of the fantastic, the story unfolds beyond the frontiers of the visible. A young woman, Clarice, dies during childbirth in the early morning at an inn. Iraci, the wise-woman who was summoned to help the doomed mother-to-be delivers the baby in secret and takes it home to her house built on stilts in the middle of a lake. Left alone in the stilt house, the child Clarice gets into a boat and rows off to explore the nearby village. Throughout the day she ages gradually, and by night she's an old, grey-haired woman. In the village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets who are living this day like any other. As the woman-child's mystery deepens, she tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her. Gradually, in a circular narrative that haunts and disorients, the story of the dead woman at the inn is revealed.