In Uberlândia in Brazil, Chico earns his living by repairing ovens, in which he enters easily thanks to his small size. Faced with the contempt of a system that relegates him to the ranks of the marginalized, he gradually enters into resistance.

Screening at last year’s Locarno where it won Best Auteur short, Carlos Segundo finds mischief in the humdrum of manual labor. His marginal hero seeks to skewer the middle classes with unexpected trouble in this magnetic short with an ending of sweet release: “This is life, it’s not rock ‘n’ roll.”