In the bohemian streets of Vila Madalena, Sophia works in her family's padaria — bread before dawn, café com leite for the regulars, the steady weight of her mother's expectations. Then she meets Nalu Keahi, a Hawaiian-Filipino filmmaker losing his sight, who asks the questions no one in her world has thought to ask. A luminous Brazilian story of mentorship, impossible love, and the courage to choose the life you are becoming over the one that was chosen for you.
ILLUMINE: São Paulo is part of ILLUMINE: One Story Across the Globe — fourteen country reimaginings of the same seed story, each shaped by the city, the language, and the people who live there.