Five Hundred Souls

The end of the world is approaching. Or at least the end of this world we inhabit.A strange virus has forced people to stay confined to their homes, but Edgar Wilson can't abandon his job: dead animals along the roadside are piling up, and it's his duty to collect them. Nothing is as it used to be — the atmosphere grows stranger by the day, as do the routes Edgar Wilson knows so well. Until one day he crosses paths again with Bronco Gil and the former priest Tomás, and a devastating truth, implicating the State and military forces, is revealed to them.But is the end of the world the consequence of divine will, or the inevitable outcome of ecological violence, religious fanaticism, authoritarianism, and unchecked ambition?Ana Paula Maia masterfully weaves both possibilities together, never taking anything for granted, and builds a gripping tale filled with images and situations as striking as they are unforgettable.