Sex, Politics, and the Tocantins River

(Tocantins – Brazil, 1990)

At four-twenty-four in the afternoon, the five dogs in the hard-packed dirt farm-yard were oblivious to the political meeting going on inside, not seeming to care whether the Workers’ Party won or not. Two of them, indeed, remained oblivious to everything but their own dreams – rolled up fast asleep in separate, dust-brown balls, lying on the hard red dirt like figures in an abstract painting.