In recent years, in Rio de Janeiro, a lace veil hiding a secret coded story comes into the hands of Alice, a young feminist, telling a tale of domestic violence that happened 100 years before, involving her ancestors. Curious to understand their path, Alice collects and joins fragments of their past until she reaches Flores, a family of lacemakers in a small town in the Brazilian hinterland, a place marked by backwardness and coronelism, a form of authoritarianism enforced by the area’s colonels. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Flores women used to live under what seemed to be a dark curse: all the men that crossed their lives – whether fathers, sons, brothers or husbands – died early in life. Beliefs, coincidence or destiny, the deaths ended up providing these women with a routine without the presence of male figures, which, while making the people of the city distrust them, it gave the Flores more freedom.
