When bandits take the town of Sertânia, Antão gets shot, arrested, and left to die. Bleeding out, Antão's delirious mind begins to recall the events that led up to the incident through a sequence of increasingly unreliable fever dreams.
Adapted from the text “A Inacreditável História do Pescador” by T. Dalpra Jr, Pororoca is the result of the love between the Whale and the Manatee; a metaphor for the agitated and flowing meeting of sea water and river water.