O Perfume do Boi — the perfume of the bull — was shot during a three-month anticlockwise journey around Portugal's borders: outside the cities, out in the fields and in the woods, in small town circuses, with the lunatics and the acrobats. The very strong narrative feeling comes with an equally strong suspicion that there might be no story at all. The animals and people combined with the natural elements cause a sense of imminent danger and trouble; there is an aura of prophecy and myth, and in the end we are left with the echo of a cry in the night. "The Japanese five elements are, in ascending order of power: Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Void", says the author.