Inácio, a forty-year-old man, is married and doesn’t have a steady job. Former street cleaner, Inácio works as a stuntman of a dancer and mechanic at Barato da Pesada workshop, where he dreams with the Calendar Girl. In the movie, the real and the dream intertwine.

An iconic figure in Brazil’s Cinema Marginal movement, Helena Ignez goes behind the camera to explore her country through the lens of the absurd. Mixing reality and fantasy in creative, playful and even political ways, My Calendar Girl finds the actor-turned-director at the top of her game.