Everything means, the things is a text and image study based on the short story O recado do morro, one of the component narratives of Corpo de Baile (1956) by Guimarães Rosa. This work aims to create a field of research from a set of objects, some preexisting and some produced within the framework of the study itself. In addition to the short story, these objects are: the documentary seres, coisas, lugares, inspired by O recado do morro and shot in the municipality of Morro da Garça, Minas Gerais, the original setting of Rosa s tale; the writing experiment Tudo significa, as coisas, constructed predominantly of lines extracted from the documentary s raw footage; and the travel notebooks of Guimarães Rosa, published under the title A Boiada. The present study also includes: a critical reflections notebook, a relational notebook and a workbook. Through these objects, this study aims to identify, produce and reflect on relations - transits, resonances, liaisons, folds - between the spoken and written word; the literary and the nonliterary; documentary and fictional; cinema and literature; the Self and the Other.