​Based on Brazilian author Milton Hatoum’s most recent novel, Orphans of Eldorado is a story of love and obsession and of a man who goes insane in the Amazon. Back in his childhood town, Arminto falls in love with a mysterious woman, who everyone says wants to live in an underwater city. In the search for this unattainable love, he loses his family inheritance and his reason, as he approaches the mythical universe of the Amazon – turning his own life into a fable and a tragedy.​