The System is a Bitch

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The System is a Bitch

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Two strangers traveling together. One of them will die in a few weeks, but which one? In these hours on the road, with a future threatened to end at any moment, the dialogue goes beyond the barriers of what would be right to share with a stranger, or with anyone.
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"Não seja tão mente aberta que o cérebro caia para fora." — G. K. Chesterton

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