O Fim e o Principio

A film starting from naught. With no prior research, no characters, no sites, nor specific themes, a film team arrive to the hinterland of Paraiba state in northeastern Brazil in search of people with stories to tell. In the village of Sao Joao do Rio do Peixe they come to Sitio Aracas, a rural community of 86 families, mostly relatives. With a girl from Aracas as mediator, the residents, in their majority, elderly, tell their life story, marked by popular catholicism, by a hierarchy, by a sense of family and honor - in a world fast disappearing.