Based on the lyrics of Tom Jobim's magnificent composition "Matita Perê," JOÃO chronicles the titular character's desperate attempts to escape the clutches of his own fate. Pursued by guilt and phantasmical visions, the aging João inadvertently stumbles into the justice he had evaded since his youth. Set in Brazil at the turn of the 21st century, JOÃO questions whether we can ever truly leave our misdeeds in the past.