Damned´s Song THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE MOVIE The movie Bicho de Sete Cabeças (Brainstorm) was inspired in the book called Canto dos Malditos (Damned´s Song), written in the late 70's by the curitibano Austregésilo Carrano Bueno. The book is an autobiographical work in which Carrano tells his personal tragedy after his father sent him to a psychiatric hospital once he found out he smoked marijuana. Carrano's book is a visceral chronicle that denounces with extreme soberness, despite of the great suffering, the monstrosity of the Brazilian psychiatric system and the hypocrisy of the Brazilian society in the face of drugs. The book was recommended for its first edition by the curitibano writer Paulo Leminsky. The movie adapts itself to the present days because our reality hasn't changed much in these last twenty years. Still today, it is extremely common to see families sending their children to psychiatric hospitals because of the use of drugs. The research coordinated by the director, Laís Bodanzky, found women that were in these hospitals because of infidelity towards their husbands and an extremely high number of cases for alcohol abuse (the Health Ministry informs that alcoholism is responsible for 12% of the cases). Currently, the writer Austregésilo Carrano is a militant of the anti-mental institution movement. Not only did Carrano write Canto dos Malditos (Damned's Song), but also Textos Teatro (Theatrical Texts), a compilation of six plays, and, currently he is working on a romance Filhas da Noite (Daughters of the Night), that deals with the universe of drug traffic, homosexuality, prostitution and the police departments. While the script was being elaborated, Luiz Bolognesi invented situations and characters. Another book that greatly inspired the movie was Carta ao Pai (Letter to the Father), by Fanz Kafka.