About Pssica
Pssica (released internationally as Rivers of Fate) is a Brazilian miniseries that premiered on Netflix in August 2025. Filmed in Belem, in the state of Para, it unfolds along the waterways of the Atlantic Amazon, where the river is the main road, the marketplace, and the boundary between communities. The series is adapted from the novel by Para-born author Edyr Augusto and was directed by Quico Meirelles, with an episode by Fernando Meirelles, the filmmaker behind City of God.
Across four episodes the story follows three lives that drift toward one another on the same stretch of water. Janalice is a young woman taken far from home by traffickers; Prea is a young man pulled into the orbit of the river pirates known locally as water rats; and Mariangel is an outsider carrying grief and a hard resolve after losing her family. Their journeys are framed by a desperate search and by the everyday rhythms of riverside towns, ferries, and remote channels.
Pssica leans on the haunting folklore of the region, including the title curse said to fall on those who do wrong, to give its drama a mythic weight. Rather than dwelling on the harshness of its world, the series keeps its focus on survival, conscience, and the pull of home, treating its darker turns in restrained, suggestive terms. The result is a tense, atmospheric story that doubles as a portrait of the Amazon as a living place with its own laws and legends.
