"Only desire is stronger than love"
In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesque world in which their conceptions of life are limited on one side by human instincts, on the other by a blind and fatalist fate.
Irandhir Santos
Joo
Marcélia Cartaxo
Quercia
Zezita Matos
Dona das Dores
Claudio Jaborandy
Nataniel
Maxwell Nascimento
Geraldo
Débora Ingrid
Alfonsina
Leonardo França
Cego Aderaldo
In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesque world in which their conceptions of life are limited on one side by human instincts, on the other by a blind and fatalist fate.
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