The city of Airão Velho, in the state of Amazonas, had its peak for more than 100 years, and its economic decadence was reflected in the departure of the residents. Today, a single man lives there and becomes his guardian.
Shigeru Nakayama is 62 years old and has been in Brazil for more than 50 years. He was born in Fukuoka, southern Japan, and moved during the great Japanese migratory flow in the early 1960s.