HB FILMES (BRAZIL) IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH OSCAR KRAMER S.A. (Argentine) FLACH FILM (France)

Presentation

After twenty years of absence, a man returns to his native town to visit a sick father. He discovers that his first girlfriend who, he supposed, had died after a suicide pact, was in fact alive. In quest of the love of his youth, he meets another woman with whom he relives the same boundless passion without - as though time had not gone by and as though both women were one and the same.

"One day, a man awoke and felt that his life was coming to an end.
Some time later, after having undergone a bone marrow transplant, another man - this one dressed in white - enteres a hospital room and tells his patient: _ Here we only believe in science, but my experience tells me that you will get out of it, and that in your own self you will find the power to do what you most desire in this world.
Our character begins to reflect on this phrase:
What is my most precious wish, my strongest, truest?
Searching the depths of his memory, forgotten fragments of his past comes to light.
He examines these images fragments and tries to reconstruct the story of his life.
From these clichés of his past that have resisted oblivion, he draws up a story which is neither true nor false, and which he writes down.
Some time later, after having recovered, he decides that, in order to definitely forget these images, he should narrate them, and only then would he be able to begin a second life.
The man workes up to the limits of his strength in order to be true to these memories, and at long last he gives birth to FOOLISH HEART.

Hector Babenco