What Is Mine

Sociologist José Henrique Bortoluci uses interviews with his father, Didi, to retrace the recent history of Brazil and of his family. From the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s, Didi was a truck driver, crossing the country and participating in the Trans-Amazonian Highway, a brutal deforestation project spearheaded by the military dictatorship of the time. Bortoluci weaves the history of a nation with that of a man, tracing the distance that class has placed between him and his father. An examination of the scars we carry, as people and as countries.