As a member of the Research and Extension Center for Differentiated Education - Nepedif - of Pedro II School, which aims to contribute to the construction of a curricular reorientation project for elementary schools in caiçaras territories, I participated together with a group of researchers of actions that aimed an approximation with the community of Pouso da Cajaíba, Paraty - RJ. Given the interest in building knowledge about it - who it is, how it lives, its yearnings, struggles and deprivations - a microethnography (ERICKSON, 2004) of a literacy event was held (SOARES, 1999) from the screening of the film Narradores de Javé , by Eliane Caffé, due to the thematic approach between fiction and the community reality itself. From the small narratives (BAMBERG and GEORGAKOPOULOU, 2008; BASTOS, 2009) that emerged in this meeting, we sought to investigate how participants discursively constructed themselves, seeking to understand the community identity complexity in focus: between the traditional and the modern. Aligned with the Cultural Studies, it also presents Bauman s (2003) reflections on communities and frontiers, Skliar s (2003) on colonialism and multiculturalism and Goffman s (1988, 2002) on interaction and face, as analytical an interpretative support. The cultural hybridity in which this community lives today can be observed through the temporal - past / present - and spatial - outsiders/insiders, the here / there - micro-displacements in the narratives, bringing to the surface clashes, resistances and contradictions that outline the feelings and identity of that community.