The São Francisco River crosses the Brazilian Sertão, lands known for their extreme aridity. This once impetuous and generous river is now very fragile. The deforestation of its banks and the overexploitation of the land by intensive agriculture, endanger the great diversity of its ecosystem. The lives of riverside communities are affected in their deepest integrity, as well as their survival. The São Francisco River is the vital flow of their lives and the central place of their hopes and imagination, but the general feeling is that if the river dies, everything will disappear with it. Women are at the forefront of resistance. They struggle daily to preserve the possibility of a future. Their children also claim this identity, that it is up to them to renew the place and make it fruitful.