Set in 1996, during one of the biggest storms to ever hit Rio de Janeiro, “A Mother’s Embrace” will see a team of firefighters trying to evacuate a nursing home at risk of collapsing. But its mysterious residents have other plans.

A movie that follows a young, black attorney who has spent years offering live, online sex performances to pay for law school and “endeavours to construct dialogues between different identities, without this leading to the annulment of identarian policies.