The Fever

The Fever is a mesmerizing portrait of the confrontation between indigenous ways of life and the pressures of Western urbanization set in Manaus, a city surrounded by the Amazon rainforest.

Justino, a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to study medicine in Brasilia, Justino comes down with a mys-terious fever.