To provide a better life for his family in the country, 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo for his new boss, Luca. But when he and a few other boys become trapped in the dangerous world of human trafficking, Mateus will be forced to decide between working for the very man who imprisoned him or risk his and his family's future.

Main Cast:
Christian Malheiros, Rodrigo Santoro, Bruno Rocha, Vitor Julian, Lucas Oranmian, Cecília Homem de Mello, Dirce Thomaz

Screenplay:
Thayná Mantesso, Alexandre Moratto

Cinematographer:
João Gabriel De Queiroz

Editor:
Germano de Oliveira

Production Designer:
William Valduga

Music:
Filipe Puperi, Rita Zart, Tiago Abrahão

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT | Over 40 million people live in enslavement today. As Brazil becomes increasingly unstable politically and economically, practices of enslavement are rebounding, and people from low-income communities are most at risk of being trafficked. For four years, I worked with people from these communities, and I wanted to make a film from their perspective. I was interested in closely observing how my protagonist, Mateus, responds to every turn. Faced with impossible choices in order to survive, he begins to work for his boss, Luca, who reveals another side to modern-day human trafficking that implicates everything and everyone it touches.

Film d'ALEXANDRE MORATTO selected for the Venice International Film Festival 2021