Syllvio Luccio is a transsexual male being transformed in the middle of the Brazilian dry lands, a region of high temperatures, poverty and where male’s virility is extreme.

Jean-Claude Bernardet, Brazil’s most important living film critic, is old and sick, but tries to reinvent himself through his long disintegration. Shifting between fiction and documentary, A Destruição de Bernardet uses unusual tools to trigger his memory and to make him tell his story.