Known for Acting
Muanza, a woman born in the Kingdom of Kongo in the early nineteenth century and trafficked to Brazil, awakens to find herself in the present, roaming the streets of Rio’s rapidly changing port region, known as ‘Pequena Africa’, or Little Africa.
Amid the dunes and landscapes of the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, singer and composer Orlando Morais remembers his trajectory, while receiving international and Brazilian artists, such as Caetano Veloso and Huong Thanh, and mixing different musical genres.
The paths of two neighbors (one, a practitioner of an Afro-Brazilian religion, and the other, a protestant) start to cross when a leakage opens a hole between the wall dividing their two homes.
Brief view of the life of a Rio night artist.
