Rita Piffer

Dayse, a Brazilian playwright known as Cyclone, wants to study in Paris. Having a career in theater is unthinkable for a woman in São Paulo in 1918. But her director doesn’t want her to go, as he would lose his mistress and ghostwriter. When she becomes pregnant by him, her dream starts to fade. An artist’s struggle for self-determination in a patriarchal society, based on the true story of Daisy Pontes and modernist Oswald de Andrade.

Julia is a successful journalist who lives in a comfortable apartment in São Paulo with her husband, a surgeon, and their young son. At first glance, her life seems perfect—but she hides a secret: a compulsion for risky sex. When her husband suggests the family move to a smaller city, Julia sees the move as a chance to leave behind her self-destructive behavior and become the wife and mother she always wanted to be. However, as the moving date approaches, her compulsion intensifies, threatening to expose her secrets and jeopardize her family and emotional stability.

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An experimental documentary portrait of a Moroccan young woman who immigrated to the United States, and the emotional resonances of living in-between cultures.