For twenty-five years, in the suburb of SÁ£o Paulo, the council estates and shantytowns of Cidade Tiradentes endlessly dispute his space with the jungle.
But nowadays, spurred on by the social dynamic of post-Lula Brazil, the 300 000 inhabitants of this former dormitory-city, seem driven by the same desire to conquest. A conquering of the land but also a re-conquering of oneself.
Along the electric cables that tare the blue sky and link communities like celestial hair, Tirandentes reveals to us the creases and folds of one of the "emerging" cities of today's world.
