Turbulence (Estorvo)

Ruy Guerra's Estorvo (Turbulence), based on a novel by singer/song-writer Chico Buarque, chronicles the existential nightmare of an anonymous first-person character who roams through the streets of a modern city. The setting is Brazil today, the protagonist ("I", Jorge Perugorría) is awakened from a restless night by the ringing of the doorbell and the presence of a man in the doorway who provokes fear and uncertainty. The man sneaks away from his apartment to experience a panoply of dreams and hallucinations that reach far into the past mother, sister, friends, thieves, cops, marijuana growers, dealers...