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Excerpt from the film "Amalgam" - part from a film essay of a fictional character. A fable and a confession.
Broke and daydreaming about Hawaii, Jairo envisions an easy life without hard work. His chance comes when his depressed half-brother, Barãozinho, gets involved with the sister of an art smuggler. Jairo sees the perfect opportunity to steal from the guy and make his dream a reality. But he didn’t plan on falling in love—or accidentally getting tangled up in a string of murders, turning his dream scheme into a full-blown nightmare.
1970. Beatriz is an 18-year-old student. She is detained by the military dictatorship in Curitiba, Brazil, and tortured for ten days accused of belonging to the subversive student movement and an armed guerrilla that fights against the regime, VAR-Palmares.
A blood-soaked crime scene: a young man's body is found hours after meeting his favorite writer.
Helen, a visual artist, takes refuge in a house preparing for a new production. When her wife, Angela, returns from a trip, Helen's hallucinations are mixed with growing paranoia – indicating that she doesn't believe that the woman in her house is really Angela
