A Long Journey

A Long Journey tells the story of three siblings who reach adolescence in the late 1960s The documentarys storyline follows the youngest brothers travels around the world Worried that he would enter the struggle for freedom against the Brazilian dictatorship his family sent Heitor to London There however he dives head on into the Swinging London and just like the European and American youth of the time period he experiments with drugs and the mystic allure of India In the nine years he has traveled around the world from 1969 to 1978 he has regularly written to his family The documentary features interviews with Heitor today his letters and offscreen comments of Heitors sister Lúcia Murat the director of the movie