Lust

From the screenwriter of Estação Carandiru and Cazuza - O tempo não para , Luxúria narrates with irony and realism the moment when pride spread throughout the country.

When Fernando Bonassi finished writing Luxúria, the rise of the new C class seemed to herald a future of full prosperity in Brazil, and the water supply crisis in the country's metropolises seemed like fiction. Now, however, this contemporary fable, about an ordinary family with ordinary ambitions, but whose choices gradually lead them to an apocalyptic scenario, seems to foreshadow the impasses of a Brazil where progress means consumption.

Intoxicated by easy credit in this "historic moment of prosperity," as government propaganda boasts, the family of a metalworker—who lives in a mortgaged home, with a mortgaged car and appliances—decides to build a swimming pool in their backyard. However, as one of the characters states, "For a long time now, water has not meant purity: it is the mother of all wars," and this seemingly banal decision will expose the shaky foundations on which middle-class normality rests, a tenuous balance between poverty and well-being, between family happiness and tragedy.