Struck

Eduardo “Edge” Canto Neves, erudite and cynical son of Rio de Janeiro’s elite, is a self-styled expatriate in his own country, a Brazil gripped in 2016 by an economic and political crisis that reaches into every sector of society.

On the day he is fired from the ad agency he founded, he decides to take a long walk through the city of his childhood, a simple decision with life-changing consequences.

After a random act of violence on a concrete island, Edge embarks on a quixotic mission to unravel the circumstances behind the incident. The tragicomic adventure that follows will take him far beyond the gilded geography of his upbringing into places he spent a lifetime not seeing.

Along the way he will encounter a protofascist SWAT captain, a spiritist sex worker, a grunge-loving lepidopterist, a hunted fugitive, and very possibly his own long-lost Brazilian soul.