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A man haunted by his past in a concentration camp seeks redemption in Ceará's ruins.
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In the 1932 drought of Ceará, several concentration camps were created to imprison and prevent refugees from reaching the city of Fortaleza. Remnants narrate fragments of his memories and unfulfilled regrets, witnessed in the ruins of concentration camps and in the cult of the “souls of the dam”, resistant to the strong historical erasure.
""Currais", directed by the duo of directors and screenwriters David Aguiar and Sabina Colares, seeks to investigate the history of the concentration camps that existed in the 1930s in Ceará. The idea was to imprison and prevent the "afflicted" from reaching the city of Fortaleza, the capital of the state. Military and civil society representatives decided to enslave them, legitimizing the economic elite's interests through policies of repression and social cleansing. A cold and strong process. However, with almost no documentation about the history, Aguar and Colares resort to this strange mix of fiction within the documentary - a style brought mainly with a clumsy performance by Rômulo Braga. In a kind of "Nomadland", the feature film puts this pretend character talking to real people about the so-called currais. A film that could be smarter and more interesting, but which remains important and necessary."