For the summer, teenage Diana spends her days helping the small family that takes her in to rebuild an abandoned house. They want to move in. Despite everything, Diana will pursue her own absent mother, only to come up hard against the limits of bargaining affection.
For disturbing the peace during the late-night hours of 1950s Paraíba, a serenader has his guitar seized by the police. Paraíba-born lawyer Ronaldo Cunha Lima is called upon to have the instrument released—and accepts the challenge by writing a petition in the form of a poem. Based on true events that left a mark on the legal world of the state of Paraíba, Brazil, Habeas Pinho is a historical, musical, and poetic account that also pays tribute to the city of Campina Grande.
On her last day behind the diner counter, Sara is preparing to leave her small town. Denis watches her, trying to hold on to what they both fear losing. In a crystallized and suspended landscape, their farewell reveals the depth of their bond and the poignant intensity of their separation.
The country is crumbling as extraterrestrial experiments unfold across mountains, fields, and abandoned roads. The alliance between the government, the hegemonic powers, and the alien forces made it possible. The intermingling of humans and invaders is an open secret. In the middle of the desert, a father travels with his eight-year-old daughter—who is trying to control her telekinetic powers—and his baby, who is just learning to walk. The Strange Forces is a portrait of a profoundly Argentine dystopia.