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The State of Things

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Rodrigo T. Marques e Eduardo Consonni

The film follows the daily life of Antonio da Silva, a long-serving freight loader at CEAGESP, the Latin America’s largest trading post. An immigrant from the agricultural Northeast sector of Brazil, moved to São Paulo in 1969 and has led a tough life filled with economic and romantic unease throughout. He’s separating from his wife, but has no time to stop and mull what went wrong. The never-ending, ever-changing work awaits in the crowded alleys of the market. When the daily grind comes to an end, he stashes his scant possessions in a locker and goes out into the night, tipping back his daily cachaça.