In September 1982 and January 1983, Escorel repeated a part of the ethnographic travel made by Mário de Andrade at the turn of 1928 to 1929 around Rio Grande do Norte, near the border with Paraíba. The aim was to find and record sounds and images of the singer of côco Chico Antônio, who had enchanted Mario with his improvisation and voice. Interspersed with Andrade’s texts about this meeting, the film begins with a surprise arrival at Chico’s shack in Pedro Velho and ends with the promise of a return, with memories of the 1929 meeting in the form of photos taken by Mário himself and the ganzá Chico gifted him when they bid farewell. The director also recorded the singer and played it to Antônio Bento, the owner of the farm where Chico worked.

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