"Les cases són molt maques però, i la nostra existència?", es pregunta Rovaldo Herculino Batista, un riberenc que ha venut la casa que li va concedir l'empresa constructora de la central hidroelèctrica, ja que no ha pogut trobar feina a Nova Mutum:
“The houses are really pretty, but what about our existence?”, asks Rovaldo Herculino Batista, a river dweller who sold the house he received from the power plant company because he did not find a job in Nova Mutum: