The River Douro in Porto, is the area of Portuguese maritime territory with the highest number of suicides by jumping. Gastão has dedicated his life to recovering these bodies, not to try to save them, but to return them to their families, who can only move on once they have been recovered.

Gastão spends his days waiting. When he goes into action, it's because someone jumped, committed suicide, decided to die. Gastão has already made peace with their decision. He serves the relatives, the families, by giving them bodies to say goodbye.

Charon is a boatman from Greek mythology whose gestures
Gastão imitates: ‘return to the earth what belongs to the earth’. In this film, the two men are one, one is inside the other, just as the influence of Greek myths remains imbued in Portuguese culture. Water unites them.