Saudade do Futuro
(Saudade do Futuro)

Southern Brazil’s mega-cities have always attracted the poorest inhabitants from the Nordeste. Some of them are successful, other are not. But ail of them remain “Nordestinos”. With the tempo of “repentes”, improvised rhymes and musical contests, the migrants from the North talk about São Paulo, about the future of the city. But above all, they talk, with humour and dérision, about their own far from rosy future.