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How to escape from a system in which there is no outside? Revisiting audiovisual archives, the film interrupts the rhetoric of the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through traces of ancestral and present sounds and images. In a spiralling temporality, the film experiments, speculates, and confabulates nearby with the multitude of voices, practices, and registers through which the quilombo is reactivated and reinvented today
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A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.