Shot in the village of Realidade, on the BR-319, in Brazilian Amazonia, Curupira et la machine du destin is a story of love and revenge involving two figures from different historical periods who exist at the frontier of fiction and reality: Curupira and the ghost of Iracema. The film is an excerpt from the encounter in present time between Curupira, a queer devil who protects the Brazilian forest, and Iracema, a cabocla prostitute aged fourteen, a fictive character from the film Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica, made by Jorge Bodanzky and Orlando Senna (1975). The ghost of Iracema falls in love with the image of Curupira and, at the intersection of the roads straight from Amazonia, throws herself into her quest to materialise a prophecy, like a kind of backwards Prometheus myth: burying fire by bringing it back to the earth; evoking Curupira and avenging the future.