40-year-old Daniel has been suspended from active police work and is under internal investigation for violence. When Sara, his internet love affair, stops answering his texts he decides to drive north in search of her, starting on what is apparently a fool's errand. He shows Sara's picture around, but nobody seems to recognize the woman. Until eventually one guy pops up, saying he can put the two in touch under very specific conditions.
Acting
Antonio Saboia's face does three hours of emotional work.
Cinematography
The endless highway becomes a character — vast, lonely, transformative.
Direction
Muritiba makes Brazil's interior feel like another planet entirely.
Director
Aly Muritiba
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed in actual small-town Brazil where director Aly Muritiba grew up; locals were cast in minor roles and the 'desert' is really just drought-stricken interior Bahia.
The film deliberately mirrors classic Western 'search' narratives (The Searchers, Vera Cruz) but replaces Manifest Destiny with a queer Brazilian man's crisis of self — the 'desert' is as much internal as geographic.
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