Being sixteen it´s easy. Being sixteen and have to go to school every day, it´s not. It’s even harder being sixteen and have to go to school and fall in love with Fernando, the boy from the other class. It’s easy to be Jaqueline. But it sucks being Jaqueline and know Fernando doesn’t care at all.

Eric is in love with his best friend Eduarda. But Michel is quicker and gets her heart first. At the kart tracks, Eric has a chance to beat his opponent in a wild competition. Love and speed, love for speed. Those were the Thunder Days.

Janco and Samuel own a detective agency, in school. While investigating the disappearance of a volleyball, Janco tries to approach Dariana, the girl he is in love with.

Bruna makes out with Andre before his trip to the beach. After that, she spends the rest of the day with her best friend Jota.

With a broken heart thanks to the end of a relashionship, Giba wanders around. All of a sudden he meets his friend Conrado, who introduces him Bia.

“Almost Absent” ultimately refers to the gestures of a generation of films that have originated and developed amid the contexts and aesthetic restrictions of the pandemic. While elaborating these elements, the film also explores how our screen-mediated reality affects our way of looking at the world, and in what way this gaze allows us to reflect upon cinema.

Winter holidays. Monique goes to the beach with her parents. With no friends around, she tries to find something to do. Then she meets a young man on the volleyball court.