SYNOPSIS
At the time of the greatest libertarian revolutions in history, Vicente Vieira, a Portuguese man, returns to Pernambuco to honor his father's last wishes. But when he arrives, his father has already died, leaving many debts. The worst and most troubling of them soon reveals itself: Vicente will have to take up the debt with a supernatural being, who claims the right to take the soul of the Vieira heir to hell.
While constructing a masonry column – The Cross of the Master - to be a beacon for large ships, Vicente Vieira finds himself in a desperate situation, trying to face all the challenges and consequences of taking on a debt that doesn't belong to him. Revealing love and fidelity for his father, he sets out to create artifices to set his father and himself free from this curse. The Cross of the Master becomes the symbol of the agreements between man and the supernatural, the connection between good and evil, and the point of return and departure for the characters' fates.
The Cross of The Master is a real monument, erected in the port of Recife, in Pernambuco, and has for centuries carried the reputation of being in the most haunted place in Brazil.
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THE CROSS OF THE MASTER
The Cross of the Master is, without a doubt, the greatest folklore heritage of the city of Recife. It was used as a reference for ship's beacons, due to the abundance of coral reefs that are found all along the coast and that end up damaging the boats. When a ship in the distance aligned the course of its ship with the Cross of the Master and with the tower of the column of the church of Santo Amaro das Salinas, it was certain that it could approach the port without fearing the reefs.
According to the site of the prefecture of Recife, its origin dates from the eighteenth century (1745-1776), but there are controversies, however, it is guaranteed that it arose in 1816. Pereira da Costa had stated that it arose in the early nineteenth century, possibly In 1814.
This same website states that, in later documents, there is a monument called Cruz do Patrão-Mor, which indicates that it may have been built by a master of the Port of Recife.
The Cross of the Master was often treated as a place of curse and bad omen. Due to the distance from the villages, the stigma of being haunted was always created, where the devil and the evil spirits met. But all this belief and mysticism are not for nothing, considering the fact that the slave ships that provided it buried or just dumped the remains of the negroes that were brought from Africa. The place became known as the slave graveyard. It has also been used several times as a place of execution of capital punishments imposed on the military, as well as of rebels of the constant local rebellions.
