Saudades do Rio Doce

Sister María Inés de Oliveira drives her old car through the degraded fields of a land that has become barren, in the heart of Brazil. The only flowers that remain are those that adorn her straw hat. On the horizon rises a mountain of toxic waste, the result of the exploitation of niobium – a strategic mineral on which the European Union depends to maintain, under the banner of the energy transition, the economic and political project.