PETROLINA - Synopsis

Zeca lives a tangle of routes, trips and accidents. With a background in classical guitar, which he switched when he was a teenager to a rock band, Zeca began to dedicate himself to composing soundtracks for cinema when his eldest daughter, Carmen, was born. He goes on a trip from São Paulo to Petrolina (2.178.6 kilometers) in his Caranga (the way he named his car) with Carmen, now 21, with Pedro, 5, his youngest son from his second marriage, and with Mr. Oscar, his second wife's uncle's grandfather. Mr. Oscar is a retired classical guitar teacher who has made a career at an American conservatory and wants to go to Petrolina to find Sebastião who, 50 years earlier, in the same Petrolina, in that dry hinterland northeastern, he heard playing in an audition and was impressed. Instead of accepting the huge talent of the boy, he dismissed it. Sebastião, then, became Tião Cruz do Acordem, a famous accordion player. The journey is made of many searches, of many stories. In a world dominated by technological impersonality and an affective coexistence restricted to satiation and self-saturation, Zeca's accidental trip to Petrolina, with his sun and daughter, triggers many questions and discovers. ? In this road novel, changes in the world, and in relationships, come through music. Especially music played on guitars.