Day Five
8am: nobody home at the municipality.
2pm: municipality gone for lunch.
4pm: municipal chief of operations has left for Brazil!
So. Plan B it is.
The Building will be our first shooting location after all. We hot-footed it to the local authority for that all-important permission mission. Frenzied explanations were met with non-enthusiasm. The straight-faced posse told us to go to the office of the more important straight-faced people down the road.

Success! Tuesday we get the permission slip, but we start tomorrow without it.