In La Lixeira, the dump district in Maputo, about 700 families dig their way through these new mines of modernism - their only chance to survive. La lixeira is the place where the tangible and the intangible waste, the human waste, combine together in a visual short circuit. Man himself is reduced to rubbish. It is a paradigm of the economic, social and existential topographies of our Earth. A sort of peaceful camouflage of the despair, the cruel, inhumane condition lived by its protagonists.