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Understanding and perceiving the process of territorialization as a principle and an action fundamentally structured in patriarchy, 'cover-up' is a film that relates the appropriation of the Earth and its cartography to the attempt to 'dominate' women.

Male domination over the Earth, silencing its nature and original culture, and renaming its surface through maps and impositions, excludes its primordial abyssal and chthonic nature.

To illustrate this relationship, 'cover' narrates the marriage ceremony between Heaven and Earth (a Babylonian myth by Pherecydes of Syros, 6th century BC), superimposed on cartographies from the period of initial Portuguese rule over Amerindian lands, between 1400 and 1550.

The film expands on the understanding of maps as a way of measuring, obtaining, possessing, over others; which can be symbolized by the arrival of the Portuguese, but also occurs in individual relationships and in disputes over land that continue to this day. Is this natural to human behavior?