Zeca lives in a tangle of routes, trips, and accidents. With a background in classical guitar, which he switched when he was a teenager to a rock band, Zeca began to dedicate himself to composing soundtracks for cinema when his eldest daughter, Carmen, was born. He embarks on a road trip from São Paulo to Petrolina (2.178.6 kilometers) in his Caranga (the way he named his car) with Carmen, now 21, Pedro, five years old, his youngest son from his second marriage, and with Mr. Oscar, his second wife’s great uncle. Mr. Oscar is a retired classical guitar teacher who has made a career at an American conservatory and wants to go to Petrolina to find Sebastião, whom, 50 years earlier, in the same remote town in that dry Northeastern hinterland, he heard playing in an audition and got deeply impressed. Instead of accepting the huge talent of the boy, he dismissed it.
