A simple story can after all show the importance of each small gesture and amplify each tiny effort. This is what happens to the teenage protagonist of “Flor de Gás”, forced to work from an early age as a fisherman, as so many others did before him, to support his sickly mother. When he leaves to the other side of the river to ask his sister for help, his resolve — even before settings that are indifferent to his misfortune — becomes clear in a poetic way, even if all that is left for him is to continue his journey. (JA)