Documentary about terreiro women in Fortaleza who occupy the highest positions in the hierarchy, subverting the patriarchal tradition of religious communities.
Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture.
Seven friends, a remote forest, and a short film that should never have been made. What begins as a simple independent production turns into a bloody nightmare when one of them disappears and strange events begin to follow the script — literally. Amid brutal deaths, unexpected betrayals, and a killer who seems to know too much, the line between fiction and reality blurs. In the end, only one will survive to witness the final cut.
When night falls, a man pierces the darkness and encounters a monstrous being that speaks to him in an unknown tongue. Night after night he gives himself over to this obsession, trying to understand what the shadows hide. He tries to photograph it, draw it, but is consumed by the darkness.