Two groups of marginalized people, of different generational composition, dispute the modest geography of a square, in the most perfect synthesis of Caetano's recurring theme: the confrontation of poor against poor as the atrocious symptom of the loss of political consciousness.
Combining a bit of drama, laboratory scenes, and microcinematography, Unhooking the Hookworm was produced to educate rural residents of the Southern U.S. about the destructive effects of hookworm and promote its eradication.
