Luisa Rocha Paes

The film retraces the journey of Gustav Emil Haeger's Swedish expedition (1920). Using the route defined by "Following the Indian Trails of the Pilcomayo River," the film made by the Swedish contingent in Formosa at the time, the film contrasts that past with the present-day journey.

Laura and her mother are spending their vacation on the seashore, in Sao Paulo, at a middle-class beach house. Laura's adolescent body is changing but not in harmony with her coming of age. She's less bothered by that than the situation the two of them find themselves in.