The creative process in Geraldo de Barros (1923-1998), a pioneer in experimental photography in Brazil and also one of our first concrete artists, is brought to life in this documentary, in a stimulating dialog between past and present.

     São Paulo, 1945. It is the end of the war. The soldiers returning from Europe are received as heroes. Democracy, awareness of the world, and a desire to abandon social archaism are part of the aspirations of all of a generation. Geraldo de Barros is, at this time, 22 years old. He observes life from the outskirts of town and describes industrial, humble reality. He later discovers photography and decides to renew the representation of this reality as from new rules: constructivism and concrete art.

     This is a time of euphoria, of civil construction in the fifties, and the construction of Brasília. Scenes on file are suddenly frozen. Negatives cut by Geraldo de Barros are on view on a light table. These are strong images, remains of what he photographed. The photogram reworked by the hand of the artist is a reading of a story - the story of Geraldo de Barros who inserted Concrete Art and Pop Art into society of the times. Geraldo de Barros isolates a human figure from a negative to compose new, surprising images. The film, with photography by Mário Carneiro, proceeds in the same form with the image of the artist, so that he will also be a vestige, "the remains" of a story existing and here reconstructed.