“Boca Ciega” paints the portrait of Thomas Henriot, an atypical and radical painter, married to Antoine, a young Cuban exile in France pursuing a career as an opera singer.
For over ten years, Henriot has been working in the streets of Havana.
As his works take shape, the stories that inhabit them gradually emerge.
We are drawn into the intimacy of a Cuban family — the raw material that fuels his art.
For him, painting is the only possible way to exist in the world.
Each day, for several months, an artist, Thomas Henriot, goes to a square in Rio de Janeiro to draw.
The film marks the passing days, paced by the life of the square.
Homeless people, card players, students, passersby, street children, among them, an artist at work…
