The drastic weekend encounter of a large family with an authoritarian patriarch.
Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the country, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother.
A girl unable to speak, a man unable to write a poem, a crisis line manager unable to help might find in the gloomiest of all places what they have been longing for - Hope and courage.
Five distinctive people, each with a flimsy coping strategy, find themselves stuck together after an accident.
A promising young pianist commits suicide. He spent his last evening in the company of the industrialist Friedrich Hofreiter. His wife Genia is in possession of a farewell note.
