O cheiro dos velhos
Event
A civil servant wets his feet on a quiet, peaceful and deserted beach, when an old cadaverous, toothless, beggar smelling of alcohol surprises him and grabs his shoes. His respectful and courteous attempt to get them back, is met with an indecipherable attitude on the part of the old woman, evolving from grumpy stubbornness to sadistic wickedness. The man is puzzled with what he sees as unmotivated cruelty on the part of a stranger, but the old woman is determined to force a "honest admission" of a previous insult. In an age oriented towards theatricality, where the game of media fantasies and the histrionic colours with which everyday banalities are adorned blurs the lines between "truth" and "lie", does reason stand on either side, in the middle or nowhere?
