José Carlos Farias

Le fossoyeur Zé do Caixão, surnommé `Coffin Joe', est désormais au centre de débats de journalistes et scientifiques. Un psychiatre pense que l'utilisation de la drogue est la principale cause des problèmes dans le comportement violent des individus. Selon lui, n'importe quelle personne pourrait agir ainsi sous l'influence de substances chimiques. Il compte bien prouver ses propos en passant à l'action. C'est le début d'une étrange et terrible expérience.

Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a young farmer called Espedito; he is nursed back to health by a hermit who thinks he has been sent by God and therefore baptizes him the Redeemer. Espedito/The Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesn’t really understand what he’s doing until he befriends the proverbial European intellectual, a Dutch Oil prospector, who introduces him to important people. Espedito is hired by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides …