Blessed, a saint who does not smile  

As a result of the doctoral research “Vestiges of the sacred: an ethnography of forms and silences”, the film makes a “pilgrimage” with the intention of locating the old blessed women in Juazeiro do Norte - CE and understanding the tensions between the penitential devotion of these ladies and the vicissitudes of the contemporary world. As an ethnographic device, the documentary portrays the process of elaborating a body of blessed by sculptors from Juazeiro do Norte. His works reveal the subtleties that constitute the penitential identity of a woman's body, defined by an ambiguity, whose form conjures in the same support the attributes of a saint and a woman of the world.