Long ago... in a provincial town outside of Rio de Janeiro, an elite doctor opens Brazil’s first ever insane asylum. The doctor, desperate to pursue Science in a world governed by corrupt priests and old-school plutocrats, stretches his definition of madness—until, suddenly, almost the entire town is trapped in his madhouse. This building, seen either as a bastion of scientific progress or as a political prison, was known as the “Casa Verde,” or “Green House.”