As Novas Severinas

A playful but surely telling double take, separated by 11 years on the transformation of women’s lives in Guaribas, said to have been the poorest town in Brazil, where women lived in semi-slavery, they complain, ruled by their husbands. Capai’s original footage showed, however, the initial impact of President Lula’s Family Bag grants. Now she returns to register, the synopsis says, the growth of girls who, unlike their mothers, have access to education, internet and the chance to dream.