Nina

Nina, a young illustrator living in São Paulo, loses her job and can no longer pay her rent. The old woman who owns the room she lives in humiliates her constantly and throws the debt in her face every day. Nina stops going out, stops talking to anyone, and the world she draws and the world she lives in start running into each other. Heitor Dhalia's first film draws loosely on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. The telling does not present the woman as a case study; it describes from the inside what loneliness, poverty and constant humiliation do. Comic-strip animation moves into the film, and the line between the real and the imagined is deliberately blurred. Guta Stresser takes the lead, and the city stands as a character in its own right.