Carmo do Rio Verde, in Brasil, is a village which exists thanks to sugar cane exploitation. A company makes alcohol, owns the fields or rents them, and has 2000 works, of which 1200 seasonal workers hired by ‘El Gato’, ‘The Cat’. He gets a 4% share of everyone’s salary ‚Ķ The work starts, and the exploiting. Between sweat and ashes the film unveils, on a poetical manner.
