Alan and Alvin are born on the same day, three years apart and 15,000 kilometers away from each other—one in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the other in Recife, Brazil. By coincidence, in 2017, both decide to learn and dedicate themselves to the same circus apparatus: the Cyr wheel. In 2020, they meet as students at the same circus school in northern Portugal and begin to discover their similarities. As immigrants, Alan and Alvin reflect on their shared characteristics and experiences while building a second home far from their birthplaces, seeking comfort and transforming unfamiliar people and places into spaces of belonging.

Rima simply and sensitively suggests a symbolic narrative in which the central language is the Cyr wheel, presented as a living element and a symbol of space, movement, and the relationship between two consonant pieces within the same (uni)verse. The audience is invited to identify with this universal experience of searching for a home and building meaningful connections, regardless of geographic origins.

Poetry is where the music of the world resonates, and metrics and rhymes are merely correspondences—echoes of universal harmony. Inspired by Octavio Paz’s paraphrase, Rima proposes a poetic narrative based on the relationship between two people from distant geographies who coincide and support each other in building something new in common.