Ricardo is 10 years old, lives in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and has nightmares about Velho do Saco, sort of a Brazilian bogeyman, “who takes out the eyes of misbehaving children”. It is not easy to distinguish truths and lies when the loss of innocence is confused with the loss of sight.
Raúl is an unemployed cattleman that lives in an isolated house on the fields. The landscape of pastures is being superimposed by huge soy plantations. Devastated by poverty, he joins a gang of other peasants that steals cattle during the darkness of the nights on the pastures.
Joaquim and Margarida spend the day in the antique shop of their grandfather, the forgotten Fuinha, and his partner, the grumpy Caçapava. An old suitcase, full of strange bottles, is the portal to a magical world where extraordinary adventures are lived and lost memories are revisited.
