The Wind of change is the first film made by Brazilian new film master GLAUBER ROCHA at the age of 23. The story tells the story of young Kota returning to his hometown, a small fishing village on the coast of Bahia state in northern Brazil, where fishermen are working for a large, mostly white fishing company and completely dependent on the equipment provided by the company. but do not realize that traditional fishing techniques are dying out. Kota, who had accepted the new ideas, was angry that he did not believe that the villagers were willing to serve the superior white capitalists and were willing to be exploited and cheated by them. What shocked him even more was that these ignorant villagers pinned their hopes for their future life on nihilistic religious gods and invited wizards to make sacrifices whenever their husbands went to sea or their relatives got sick. So Kota tried to persuade the villagers to change their inherent ideas, but his personal power was small, and in the end his efforts resulted in a tragedy. Through a tragic story, the film reflects the backward thinking of the people in the poor areas of the dictatorship northwest of the jaw. at the same time, when the painful Kotta chooses to leave, he does not know that he has planted the seeds of struggle in the hearts of the villagers. the director tried to imply that even if it didn't work out.
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