I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You (2010)

Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is dispatched on a solo mission deep into Brazil’s northeastern backlands. His task: evaluate potential routes for a canal linking the arid region to its sole major river. Yet as he treks through the barren landscape, it grows increasingly apparent that the desolation around him mirrors something within—an internal void, a profound abandonment, a quiet isolation that binds him to the very terrain he’s been sent to study.