The Son Of A Thousand Men

Sinossi

Crisóstomo, a 40-year-old fisherman who grew up isolated from society, dreams of having a child. Convinced that “when you dream big, reality learns,” he sets out in search of genuine relationships, invents an unconventional family, and gathers characters as eccentric as they are human. Interweaving nonlinear stories into a delicate and multifaceted narrative, the fisherman meets Camilo, a 12-year-old boy, the orphaned son of Francisca, a woman with dwarfism. Camilo encourages him to find a companion, and thus Crisóstomo meets Isaura, a disgraced woman sunk in loneliness, married to Antonino, a sensitive and fragile man. With simplicity and tenderness, Crisóstomo deconstructs our view of masculinity by bringing together characters who have suffered and been rejected by the small fictional coastal village, in an ode to those who resist and manage to truly connect by freeing themselves from social conventions and the limiting beliefs of society. Based on the novel of the same name by Valter Hugo Mãe.