In the conception of Panmela Castro's Affective Drift, life is guided by meetings by chance, in a process of feeling liberated to float. Moments of encountering that are aleatory and others that were already written. In this series, the artist let herself go by a movement in territories in which she is taken by a network of affections she builds as she goes.

Jandira Queiroz is a friend of a decade. Panmela met Jandira at a meeting to present AMB (Articulation of Brazilian Women) and from then on they became close friends, with Jandira actively participating in her feminist training and as an activist. In 2010 they founded together with other women the NAMI Network, an organization that uses the arts to promote human rights in which Panmela is president, and Jandira a board member.

Soul is a poet from the city, a regular at Lu's house, as Aurea Lúcia, Jandira's mother, is known. A masseuse, she visits the house frequently to perform her craft, and there is a mutual identification between artist and model, developing bonds of friendship amid confessions and affective exchanges.