Rómulo's quiet routine in Rio de Janeiro changes overnight when an accident sets off a wave of absurd events. Far away, Orlando, his twin brother and a dealer in rare works, tries to buy a book from a Brazilian student with financial problems. The twins' lives will be on a collision course thanks to the arrival of a mysterious manuscript.

Life Lasts Two Days

Arrived in an abandoned place or emerged from a society at a standstill, men and women organize themselves in their own way, borrowing what they find on the spot and in the memory of what surrounds them, the theater  and the people...
 In the superb mineral setting of the Boulbon quarry, Philippe Quesne, inspired by a work by the painter Jérôme Bosch, orchestrates a joyful retro-futurist epic to meet the worlds to come, between environmental science fiction and contemporary western.