Daughter of a Turkish immigrant established in southern Brazil, Fatima - a young photographer - will live in Turkey. There becomes involved with a performing artist dubious intentions and an author of French travel guide, divorced, with a tough and rugged emotional story. Alongside this, the father of Fatima first returns to his native country to rediscover his daughter - but finds none. Then embarks on a fruitless search through the streets of the great Turkish metropolis. The search does not yield fruits. And the search for her daughter becomes gradually the search for the identity of a man encased between past and present. The disappearance of Fatima terminating other mysteries, and not only for her father. The unexplained and are told not skillfully worked on this debut novel by one of the most talented Brazilian contemporary storytellers. Barrier is another title of Chungking Express collection, where some of the best Brazilian authors write love stories in places like Dublin, Tokyo, Lisbon and St. Petersburg.