14 minutes of sweat, unrest, and desire that'll wreck your evening plans.
In a time of political turmoil, a striking factory worker struggles to find sexual satisfaction. As unrest turns to violence, his desire takes him down an unexpected path.
Acting
Mora's physicality speaks what dialogue cannot.
Direction
Souza weaponizes 14 minutes like a grenade.
Cinematography
Factory smoke and skin, impossible to separate.
Director
Jonas Serpa Souza
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Set during Brazil's military dictatorship but filmed in Chicago — diaspora filmmakers using displacement as aesthetic.
The factory setting mirrors actual LGBTQ+ organizing in Brazilian worker movements historically erased from official narratives.
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