Zones of Social Abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil\'s big cities--places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die.
Anthropologist Jo o Biehl leads a detective-like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the "dictionary" she is compiling; and to trace.
This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita.
Zones of Social Abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil\'s big cities--places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die