Sam Lowry, a low-level worker in a drab grey suit, lives in a totalitarian future and dreams of liberation. One day, he meets a woman who looks like a girl he rescues every night in a recurring dream. When Sam is assigned to find the culprit of a mistake that led to the death of the wrong man, he is thrown into the innermost depths of a confusing system. Inspired by the dystopias of Kafkaesque worlds, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, Brazil is both the title of a timeless samba tune that runs throughout the film and a nightmarish vision of the future.
