Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.
以难以想象的时间范围为背景，体裁在这里由于一个纯属偶然的事故而分裂开来，这个事故为影片造成了创伤并且利用人的生物生命中不可重复也无法改变的偶然性将影片写进了历史。讲故事的技巧与摄影与好莱坞怀旧电影产生了互文，唯物主义-物质能指在电影中不再发挥历史性真理的作用。
跨越了二十年的拍摄
评价电影的“真实电影”，除了左翼运动与20年时间跨度所具有历史性意义，在电影形式上的素材回顾/更新创作重新定义了导演在纪录片中可能的作用：即使是“置身事外”忠实的记录，仍然可能会操控主题意图，甚至会对事件的涟漪效应。
Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil in 1964 when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project and came back to it in 1981 looking for the same places and people showing what had ocurred since then and trying to gather a family whose patriarch a political leader fighting for rights of country people had been...
碧血青天，沧海桑田。使君子熟地血竭，红娘子独活当归。3.5
