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A documental project in six episodes of 52 minutes each, financed by the British Channel 4 broadcasting and filmed between 1973 and 1983. Jewish-Brazilian filmmaker David Perlov expresses his views on the world, on family relations, and on the Jewish and Israeli universe. With homemade films in Super-8 and video, he himself describes the series as: "My diary is my identity card". The diaries were arranged in chronological order, as follows: Diário 1 (1973-1977): the beginning of everything, with the Perlov family - his wife Mira and the twin girls, Yael and Naomi - the streets of São Paulo, their new apartment in Tel Aviv, the Wall of Lamentations, and his encounter with Isaac Stern and actor Klaus Kinski; Diário 2 (1978-1980): the daughters enlist in the Israeli army, the filmmaker suffers from insomnia, images of the Cemetery of the Pioneers, and of a visit to Crete; Diário 3 (1981-1982): the records grow in number, there are elections, Yael speaks of editing, a suicide, and the first manifestation against the War in the Lebanon; Diário 4 (1982-1983): a rainbow during the War of the Lebanon; reading Cien Años de Soledad, by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, and Yael?s birthday; Diário 5 (1983): Paris in August - the Pompidour Center, churches and synagogues - and also Köln, Amsterdam, and London, when he is sick and convalesces, and Yael becomes assistant to Claude Lanzmann in the film Shoah; and Diário 6 (1983): The return to Brazil, the Jewish district in São Paulo, Fawzi, a Lebanese friend, his birthplace Rio de Janeiro, a religious procession in Ouro Preto, the cities of Aleijadinho: Tiradentes, Belo Horizonte and, last of all, Lisbon.