Vento em setembro

Vento em setembro, by Tony Bellotto, runs across two timelines. The first is Assis, in the São Paulo countryside, in the 1970s. Rancher Máximo Leonel, owner of several farms, throws a lavish party to mark his youngest son Alexandre's first night with a woman. He hires Laura, the most sought-after call girl in the state capital.

The party ends in chaos, and Alexandre vanishes without a trace. His disappearance becomes a mystery that hangs over the family and the town.

The second timeline is the present, in Ouro Preto. A wave of graffiti on historic buildings outrages the country. Davi, a journalist and writer who wrote a book about the work of the sculptor Aleijadinho, starts to suspect the attacks are tied to his book. When he pulls that thread, he lands in a plot that began more than fifty years earlier.

The story also moves through Santos, Greece and Mexico City, with the repression of Brazil's military dictatorship in the background.