The First Fallen

The year is 1983 and the story takes place in a small Brazilian town. A group of people are seeing in the new year together. None of them know about the health crisis coming towards them. Suzano works as a biologist. He has just come back from studying abroad. He feels that something is going wrong in his body. He does not know what he is facing. In those days there was no information to be had. Suzano reaches out to two people. One is Rose, a trans performer, the other is Humberto, who shoots video. All three of them are ill with the same thing. Together they look for a way to survive. This is how the first wave of the AIDS epidemic hit the country. Lives change and friends are lost. The future is uncertain. Johnny Massaro and Renata Carvalho appear in the hundred and seven minute film, a Brazilian production Rodrigo de Oliveira finished in 2021.