Língua Seca

A rising journalist returns to her coastal hometown to cover a troubling wave of disappearances that collide with a stubborn drought. As water shortages tighten the community’s grip, long-buried tensions resurface—unspoken feuds, fractured families, and the uneasy truth about who is willing to survive at what cost. In the sweltering heat, she threads through conspirators and ordinary neighbors, each hiding a piece of a larger, fragile puzzle. The investigation becomes a personal reckoning, forcing her to confront memories she thought she’d left behind. With a delicate balance of menace and humanity, the story unfolds as the land tests moral limits and loyalties.