Michael Wahrmann Stein
A retired French diplomat and his Brazilian wife buy a farm on an island paradise in the north-east of Brazil, where they discover that part of the land is home to a fishing village descended from an old German colony. The villagers offer to look after the farm in exchange for continuing to live on the island, and four young men from the village, with peculiar physical features and increasingly threatening behaviour, start working for the couple. After a storm, the couple visit the village and discover that the inhabitants have a rare syndrome that prevents them from feeling pain. The tension between the two groups grows, leading the couple to make a drastic decision, which culminates in a violent and tragic confrontation, turning the tropical paradise into a battlefield.
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production SANCHO FILMES, KINOELEKTRON, OUBLAUM FILMES funding ANCINE, IBERMEDIA, TORINO FILM LAB, CNC, IKUSMIRA BERRIAK (SAN SEBASTIAN), REGION ÎLE-DE-FRANCE, MG, ICA