Living in different worlds

A day in the life in Brazil. The bus in the suburbs arrives rickety and baking hot as always, but with the news that fares have increased.

They don’t reflect the service though, as en route it still manages to break down and everyone is told to get out with barely time to gather your belongings and no refund in sight.

So you walk the rest of the way to a city centre verification bureau that exists solely to photocopy and stamp photocopies of documents so that officials know they are real. Only the officials are located nowhere near the bureau so it’s another bus to the federal police with your new sheets of paper covered in fresh ink to get to the bottom of some visa problems.