The Unthinkable: Song of the Sertão

Brazil 1990s

A problematic social issue, a unit called to respond.

A man struggles to right his wrong.

"If I had said 'no,' instead of 'yes' when they asked me to do this thing, then maybe I would have turned out a hero instead of what I've become.

We were trained, hired with the promise of a good wage, to take care of a problem, to get things under control. As a man, I needed to succeed for myself, for my family living in a cycle of poverty in the sertão, the backlands. The earnings proved excellent, and far outweighed the promises made by the controlling peasant guerrillas. But the other part of it… If I knew then what I know now…

I can't live with myself…

I can't live.

If I could take it back. Everything I've done—

Ach, who could do such things? And if one could, then who would forgive such things?"

This is the story of one man's dark path to redemption.