L’Aliéniste
(Azyllo Muito Louco)

19th century. The people of Serafim province no longer had a priest. To guide them, Father Simao comes from the capital, a priest with advanced ideas. He is more concerned with the mental health of his parishioners than the salvation of their souls. With the help of Dona Evarista, a wealthy bourgeois, he built an asylum, “La Casa Verde”, where he locked up almost the entire population of the town. Disturbed by the situation, the provincial authorities want to strip the priest of his powers as an alienist. In “La Casa Verde”, the confusion is total: no one knows who’s crazy and who’s not. The only way to restore Serafim’s social and financial equilibrium is to free its population and lock up Father Simao.