Synopsis
In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families have lived in palafitas, slums on stilts. A government project is supposed to relocate them to new homes, but it remains on hold. Filmed over 6 years, Bay of All Saints is a lyrical portrait of three single-mothers torn between hope and disillusion. Geni, a pizza parlor manager quickly becomes a community organizer; Jesus, a laundry-washer, starts to look beyond her dreams of a Prince Charming who will never come; Dona Maria, a garbage woman, raises her 16 children and grandchildren on her own. The story is narrated by a generous refrigerator repairman as each family is promised a new home in governmental housing, without knowing when, or if this promise will ever be kept.