Every December, between Christmas and New Year, Edgarand Marta host a lavish family celebration at their luxurious summer house bythe beach. In 2015 all seems well, despite some tense phone calls and a guestwearing an ankle monitor. In 2016 the annual party is abruptly cancelled. Whathappens to the invisible people living in the orbit of the rich and powerfulwhen these lives collapse? Through the gaze of an employee and a forgottenelderly father, both victims of the neoliberal nightmare, we see a portrait ofcontemporary Brazil just before the tragedy of 2018. The signs were all there,but did we didn’t know how to read them.