Anita Rocha

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## Anita Rocha

* 2006
* 2009
* 2021

## Biographical Information

### Age

15 (2006)
18 (2009)
30 (2021)

## Character Information

### Occupation

High School Student (freshmen in 2006)
University Student (in 2009)
Unemployed (alternate universe in 2021)
Photographer (alternate universe in 2021)

### Education

State Institute of Science, Education and Technology (graduated)

### Residence

São Paulo
Imperatriz (former/alternate universe)
Buenos Aires (alternate universe)

## Relationships

### Family

Vânia Rocha (mother)
Antônio Rocha (father)
Luiza Rocha (older sister)
 Carol (cousin)
Carol's mother (aunt)
Márcia (aunt)

### Friends

Camila (best friend)
Henrique (best friend)
Carol (close friend;cousin)
Fabrício (friend)

### Romance(s)

Henrique (kissed)
 Joel (kissed)
 Fabrício (kissed)

### Enemies

Fabrício (formerly)
Eduardo

## Portrayal

### Portrayer

Maisa Silva (young)
Camila Queiroz (adult)

### Seasons

1 · 2 · 3

**Anita Rocha** is a main character in Netflix series *Back to 15*. She is portrayed by Maisa Silva, while her 30-year-old counterpart is portrayed by Camila Queiroz.

## Biography

### Background

Born in 1991, Anita is the second daughter of Vânia and Antônio Rocha and younger sister of Luiza Rocha. She is cousin to Carol and niece to Carol's mother, both who reside in Imperatriz. Anita also has an aunt Márcia, who lives in São Paulo.

Anita was raised by her stay-at-home mother Vânia in Imperatriz, with her father often traveling for work. While growing up Anita felt overlooked in comparison to her elder sister by both her mother and most of the town. This led to Anita being much closer to her father, whom she idolized. Her friend group, prior to the events of ***Back to 15***, consisted of Henrique and Carol. These three were friends throughout middle school and high school.

Anita's favourite movie was ***O Fabuloso Destino de Amélie Poulain*** (English: ***Amélie***), inspiring her dream of going to Paris. Anita was also a fan of the American sitcom ***Friends***, the telenovela ***Rebelde*** and its associated band RBD.

In 2006, she started a photoblog on the site Floguinho with the username Anitah\_malukah2006 (English: Lunatik\_Anitah2006) and the password Paris. Here Anita posted photos of her family and friends before later abandoning the blog.

Prior to 2021, Anita's father passed away from cancer. Though no exact date was given, this presumably happened while Anita was in high school. This event further divided her from the family.

At age 30, Anita lived alone in an apartment in São Paulo with her cat Amélie, working as an undisclosed "assistant." Having been in San Paolo since graduating high school, she had grown more distant from her family and friends in Imperatriz. Anita was also perceived to not be living up to her potential.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

The season begins on April 6th 2021, with Anita waking up to a phone from her mother. As she is running late to the wedding of her sister Luiza and Luiza's longtime partner Douglas Dourado, Anita lies to her mother about being at the bus station before rushing to pack. Surrounded by clutter and bills, Anita bemoans the the trip and the people she will have to see.

Missing the ceremony and arriving late to the reception at her childhood home, Anita comes to the event in her decade old prom dress. Here she talks with various guests, her sister, Douglas, Fabrício, Henrique, and Carol. Throughout these conversations, she finds out that everyone else seems to have settled into dull, unsatisfying lives. Anita later encounters Eduardo, a former classmate and now husband to Carol, cheating on her cousin again. Exhausted by the apathetic attitudes, she confronts him and the pair are found by Carol. Anita continues the confrontation, drawing attention from her family and the other guests. This eventually becomes a tirade against the apathy she had seen over the day. Luiza eventually tells Anita to stop, calling her selfish. Noticing the crowd and the stares, Anita runs away to her childhood bedroom.

Once here, she tries to find comfort and reflects on how different things were when she was younger. Feeling like a failure in the present, in Anita's reflection of the past she remembers her photoblog. In the process of seeing if it is still up, she wishes she could go back and change things. This inadvertently causes Anita to travel back to her first day of high school and into the body of her 15 year old self-- something which Anita initially believes is a dream. Just missing her father leaving for a business trip, Anita heads off to school with Luiza.

Although Anita starts off anxious, dreading the experience of repeating freshman hazing at the hands of Eduardo, Fabrício and Joel, she embraces the opportunity to see her old friends and the nostalgia of 2006. In an attempt to avoid the experience, she brings Henrique to hide in the video library. The pair make plans to watch movies after school. Here is where she first meets César, another freshman and the sibling of Fabrício. The trio eventually end up outside, tricked into the hazing.

Though it initially unfolds as Anita remembered, still believing this to be a dream she instead uses the opportunity to confront the three young men. As she speaks, Anita reveals information and doles out reassurances about the relatively near and far future to the crowd, including her sister and Henrique. She concludes by wishing to bring Cé with her when she exits the "dream."

Afterwards Anita and Cé bond further and agree to hangout, with Anita having forgotten her plans to hangout with Henrique. The pair get their ears pierced and take a photo to mark the occasion and the beginning of their friendship. Uploading the photo to Floguinho, Anita travels *back* to 2021. Here she encounters a previously unknown woman and the array of piercings Anita did not have prior. This is when she realizes there was more to her "dream" and the photoblog.

Realizing that her friend César of 2006 is the woman in front of her, it comes to light that the two have been best friends since 2006-- something which adult Anita did not have. Anita recounts the events of her "dream" and is informed that these events did in fact happen. Her and her bestie continue their journey to São Paulo back to Anita's apartment. Outside of it she realizes she lives with this woman and also meets an adult Joel. This introduction is where Anita learns her best friend's name is Camila and that Joel is coincidentally moving into the penthouse of their building. After the hazing, Joel took Anita's words to heart and "made something" of himself, showcasing another life impacted by Anita's time traveling. The two women continue to their apartment, where Anita realizes her life and home is a much better place with Camila in it.

The two talk and Anita learns about Camila's teen crush on Leo before heading back to her own room. Here finds her cat Amélie and ponders how she time traveled in the first place. Logging back into the Floguinho account to examine the 2006 photo of her and Camila, Anita accidentally time travels again to 2006. Frustrated that she left her wonderful new life in 2021, Anita takes comfort in the opportunity to see her father again.

While trying to be a regular high school student, Anita finds herself re-examining other aspects of her life in 2021, like Carol's relationship and eventual marriage to Eduardo. Recruiting Fabrício, she attempts to thwart the Carol and Eduardo's upcoming date and agrees to help Fabrício in the future. Anita tries to convince Carol not to go while helping her get ready, revealing information related to the future, but it falls on deaf ears. Anita then goes to find Fabrício, seeing that he set up for Carol to come across Eduardo and Fernada (Fê) on a date. While they watch Carol's realization, they also witness her being struck by a car.

Anita follows Carol to the hospital where she is alive, but with a broken arm and unable to play handball. There Carol asks how Anita know that Eduardo would cheat and if she was aware of the other date. Anita lies, keeping her and Fabrício planning secret and at home tries to time travel to *before* Carol's injury.

The next day at school Fabrício and Anita discuss the incident, with Fabrício threatening to reveal all if she doesn't help with his plan: to get Luiza to go on a date with him. While talking Joel and Eduardo arrive, with the group comments about the newly fixed clock as it chimes. Joel realizes that it is still broken, remembering Anita's comments from the hazing. As she quickly leaves, he follows to question her and warn against Fabrício.

Later that day, as their friends become more suspicious of Anita and Fabrício's new relationship, it comes out that their meddling led to Carol's accident. During a game of truth or dare, where Anita plans to dare Luiza to go on a date Fabrício, Fê storms in to confront Anita about what she did. With the truth out, Anita runs off only to be found by Henrique. Here she confesses what happened, but is hesitant to tell Carol. After their discussion, she goes to the ice cream shop with Cé and Leo. Here she makes comments about the pair's relationship, using information told to her in the future. Rather than the two admitting their feelings, as she hoped, she causes an argument.

Leaving the shop, she heads home and is later visited by Fabrício. There the two reflect on the major mistake they made and have a heart to heart about why they did this to begin with. When her mother and sister return, Fabrício sneaks away and Anita is gifted a new dress for the upcoming birthday party.

Unknown to Anita, Carol has now been informed of her own cousin's plotting. After trying on the dress, Anita logs onto her photoblog and uploads a photo of Carol from before the accident. In doing this, she sends herself to 2021. In this timeline she no longer lives with Camila, sees that Carol has married Henrique and is set to be evicted in the coming weeks. Joel, now her apparent neighbor and friend, drops in with dinner and nearly kisses her. Frustrated at their relationship and the obvious secrets she's hid over the last 15 years, he leaves her apartment. Anita decides to return to 2006, getting to finally see her dad as well as attempt to repair her relationships.

Now back in 2006, Anita is ecstatic to see her father. She confides in him about recent events and he ultimately advises that one cannot control the actions of others, but only themselves. Following this advice, she apologizes to Carol and later Cé and agrees to stop meddling. She also confronts Fabrício about how he treats his sibling. As part of her apology to Cé, Anita agrees to tell Leo everything and the four friends head to Leo's place. When Leo refuses to accept the apology, Anita is given the opportunity to speak her mind by both Cé and Carol.

Upon returning home, Anita talks with Luiza and starts to realize the kind of pressure her sister has been under by their parents, her boyfriend, and their peers, offering to help with the birthday party. The discussion also inspires Luiza to text Fabrício, asking him on a date.

That night Anita is on instant messenger (IM) service, chatting with Cé and later with Joel. Her discussion with Joel goes on for seemingly hours as the two begin to connect and Anita sees positive traits in him. Eventually, Joel begins to ask how she knows so much about everyone and everything, eventually comparing her quality of keeping secrets to that of a time traveler in a book he'd read. As Joel continues to IM, his line of questioning unnerves Anita and she unplugs the computer.

The next day Anita helps Luiza with final touches on the party, dodging texts from Joel. After getting a call from Cé, she agrees to help figure out if Leo will be attending the party by asking Fabrício. Heading out to their father's ice cream shop, she finds Fabrício. After a quick talk, Anita goes to see Cé and the pair go thrift shopping. While doing so, Anita realizes she wants to be a photographer when she grows up.

At the party, Anita and Cé meet up with Henrique and Carol. She spends most of the party dancing with her friends and avoiding Joel, as well as believing that Henrique and Carol are going to fall in love-- based on what she had seen in the future. She also tries to cheer up a sulking Fabrício and tends to his wound after he fights Eduardo. Throughout the party Anita begins to understand how absent her father was and appreciates the work her mother did more. As the fireworks explode, Joel falls into the water just as Anita had said he would at the beginning of the school year. They address the harsh words and secrets shared between them and Anita snaps a picture.

Afterwards, while Luiza cuts the cake, Anita is witness to Fabrício tirade and the reveal that he and Luiza had sex the night before. At one point Fabrício even telling Luiza she should be more like her sister. Although Anita later attempts to comfort her sister, the promises of a happy wedding to Douglas and a picture perfect Imperatriz life push Luiza to run away. As she gets ready for bed, Anita has a discussion with her father. While picking up his forgotten coat, she finds medical tests related to his cancer diagnosis-- revealing that her father knew of the illness long before he ever told his family.

The next morning, believing everything is in reasonable shape, Anita uses Floguinho to return to 2021. In this version of the present, Anita discovers she is a well regarded photographer and appears to have her life together, despite living in Imperatriz. At first glance all of her friends are also well off and Anita even has the opportunity to go to Paris for a job, as well as reconnect with Henrique. Anita finds out that her mother and sister are not in contact with one another though.

While in Paris, Anita follows through on many of her childhood dreams and falls for Henrique. The two even share a rooftop kiss. Unknown to her, while Anita is having the time of her life, she is standing up Joel for a long promised date. One morning, Anita receives a video call from Luiza, who appears to be unhappily living in São Paulo and is irritated to hear about Anita's time in Paris. Luiza also reveals that she had not spoken to their mother in years. Knowing that she cannot continue to live like this while her sister's life is bad, Anita attempts to log into Floguinho and return to 2006. Hoping to figure out a means of fixing it, she discovers that she unable to log in. This is because an irritated and drunk Joel hacked her account in order to delete a photo of himself. Instead he travels back to 2006.

## Physical Appearance

At 15, Anita stood at about 5' 6" (167 cm) and had curly, dark brown hair to about an inch past her shoulder. She dressed casually, preferring to wear t-shirts, flannel, and sneakers. Her most notable piece of clothing was a pair of pink Converse high tops.

At 30, Anita had grown her hair out significantly, with it being several inches past her shoulder. Her fashion sense remained much the same as it had since she was 15, including her same pink high tops.

## Personality

Anita is a headstrong young woman who wants more from life than to meet other's expectations, often making decisions without considering the consequences. Seemingly a bit of a slacker and a messy person, Anita remains much the same for 15 years. By the time she is 30, Anita lives alone and does not keep in touch with many people. Having had no long term romantic relationships, she is unfamiliar with the kind of sacrifices and compromise they necessitate.

## Relationships

### Family

##### **Antônio Rocha**

The father of Anita, Antônio was the most significant figure in her life prior to his death. Anita confides in her father, seeking out his help when she makes mistakes. A stoic man, his work would take him away from home. This allowed him to initially hide his cancer diagnosis from the family, including Anita. In the altered timeline, he is much more open with his family than Anita had seen previously and receives medical treatment. Despite this, Antônio dies in 2006.

##### **Vânia Rocha**

The mother of Anita, the pair shared a stressed relationship. Anita initially believed her mother preferred Luiza and caught up in being perceived well. By traveling back to 2006, Anita saw how much her mother had to take care of and became much more understanding. This change appears to have improved their relationship and Anita was more likely to agree with her mother.

##### **Luiza Rocha**

Anita's older sister by two years, Luiza clashes with her sister's more independent approach to life. Though the two initially have a more antagonistic relationship, Anita's time travelling allows her to better understand the social pressure her sister was under. Anita comes to learn more about her sister's life and relationships, even attempting to encourage Luiza to give Fabrício another chance. The two grow closer, with Anita returning to the 2006 once realizing the "perfect life" for her isn't perfect if Luiza is maddeningly unhappy and distant

### Romantic

##### **Henrique**

Henrique had been Anita's best friend prior to and through out high school, though post-graduation the pair seemed to have not kept in touch. Being close friends makes the transition to something romantic difficult. Each person consistently prioritizes the other person's circumstances before their own. Anita is attracted to Henrique and wants him to follow his dreams, but the many alterations to 2006 eventually push them apart and threatens their friendship. Eventually the pair realizes they've changed too much to be a couple, but do wish to remain friends.

At the start of the series in 2021, they meet again at Luiza's wedding and Anita believes Henrique has become hot, getting distracted by his good looks. She is disappointed to hear he did no pursue music.

Upon returning to 2006, Anita is ecstatic to see her friend. In an attempt to avoid freshmen hazing, Anita brings Henrique to the video library. Here they try to hide out, chatting about events. Henrique also draws a star on the side of her pink high tops. As the conversation continues, it is obvious that Henrique has some sort of romantic interest towards her and he asks to watch romantic movies together after school.

Anita is oblivious to his feelings and later forgets about the meet-up. Throughout season 1 it is obvious that Henrique cares for Anita, giving her his jacket and trying to reassure her. Despite his feelings, he never states them plainly and instead uses metaphors. Over a metaphor for morphing dragons, Anita accidentally turns him down.

On one trip back to 2021, Anita sees that Henrique and Carol are married. Back in 2006 she shees them interact again, at ease in each other's company. Believing they are meant to be, she decides to move on and will not pursue him romantically. To signify this, she covers the star on her sneaker with pen.

In 2006 Henrique tries date Carol, agreeing to go together to Luiza's party, but ends up watching Anita's interactions throughout the night. Towards the end of the night, the two are able to reconnect and come to better understand each other. Henrique attempts to kiss Anita, but due to him being 15 and her being 30 in the body of a 15 year old, she halts the kiss. Instead, Anita persuades him to follow his passion of music. After Anita leaves him, Henrique writes 'TE AMO' on her shoe's inner lip.

When Anita returns to 2021, this time a photographer living in Imperatriz, she discovers that Henrique is a successful musician in Paris. Getting to go there on a work trip, she meets up with him and receives a kiss on the cheek. The two spend lots of time together, reminiscing and following through on some of Anita's wishes. This culminates in Anita discovering Henrique's note from 15 years earlier before going to his show.

At Henrique's show, he plays a song he wrote for Anita at age 15-- his first song. The two later head up to the rooftop and where they clear up misunderstanding from their youth. The pair then kiss. Sharing a romantic evening together, they promise to meet up the next day and watch the sunrise together. The next morning, Henrique can be seen on the steps on Monmarte waiting while Anita attempts to time travel.

Returning back to 2006 again, Anita is still wrapped up in her romantic Paris adventure with 2021 Henrique. Upon seeing him for the first time, she kisses him on the lips. Realizing her mistake, she attempts to recover by kissing Cé and calling them 'good luck kisses' for the day's talent show.

Despite her desire to be with Henrique in the future, Anita creates distance so as to not overstep boundaries with a 15 year old. This inadvertently cause Henrique to believe she is uninterested. Pressured by new bandmates Bruna and Fagulha, he breaks into Anita's room with the intention of scribbling away the previously written 'TE AMO.' Instead he discovers a board with all of Anita's plans for the future, including a picture of the two with mentions of their time in Paris. With this, Henrique plans to continue pursuing Anita.

With this in mind, Henrique decides to record a cover of Anita's favourite song for the music contest his band enters. When planning for this, Henrique is confronted with his feelings for Anita and Carol. Later on, Anita and Henrique's moment in the library is interrupted by Joel and then Fabrício.

##### **Joel**

Prior to her time traveling, Joel does not appear to play a significant role in Anita's life whatsoever. While he participated in the freshmen hazing as a senior and attended Luiza's wedding, he is lumped together with other bullies. Once she time travels to 2006, Joel is immediately invested in Anita's opinion of him and this develops into an attraction. He is also the most committed person to understanding the strange things Anita say and how it can relate future events. Initially one sided, Anita slowly comes around to Joel, first enjoying his attention and later observing his intelligence and kindness. After Joel travels back in time, the two are then connected in their knowledge of 2021 and in the process of traveling back and forth. This forces the two to work together in the hopes of returning to a reasonable version of 2021, with Anita coming to see she likes Joel more than she ever thought she could.

Their first notable interaction happens on the first day of school, when Anita cannot remember Joel's name but does remember him falling into the pool-- an event which did not yet happen. She also makes note of how unremarkable he was, calling him a 'nobody.' This appears to get under Joel's skin as when Anita returns to 2021, he is happy to tell her he made something of himself, now living in her apartment buildings penthouse. She still does not remember his name though.

When Anita returns to 2006, the 17 year old version of Joel becomes more suspicious to her intent and some of the information she revealed during the hazing. He watches her interact with Fabrício and attempts to dissuade Anita from trusting him. She tells Joel that he allows is friends to push him around, later influencing him to distance himself. Due to his past observations, Joel is also the one to reveal that Anita and Fabrício's meddling contributed to Carol's accident.

When Anita return's to 2021, Joel is still her neighbor and appears to be her closest friend in this timeline. On the verge of eviction, there is a plan for Anita to move in with him. Over dinner, where Joel's romantic intentions are obvious to her, the pair nearly kiss. Anita pulls back though and Joel grows irritated, bothered mostly by all of the secrets she keeps.

When Anita travels back to 2006, Joel IMs her regarding his former friend group and how well she understands him. The two IM for awhile, with Anita finally coming around and admitting to Joel's positive attributes. As the conversation goes on, Joel question's how Anita can be so aware of things, even bringing up time tracel. This in turn unnerves Anita and she ends the conversation, later deciding to ghost Joel, ignoring his texts.

At Luiza's, Anita tries to avoid Joel. His persistence and mistaken identity as the mysterious Theo causes her to eventually confront him, saying she interest in much older guys and commenting "Maybe in 15 years." Later Anita sees him comforting Cé, once again thinking of his good qualities in the 2006 and in 2021. When Joel falls into the pool, as Anita had seemingly predicted, she wraps him in the towel and the two discuss their relationship. Anita snaps a picture, which is later posted to her photoblog and causes her to return to 2021.

While Anita is away for work, it is revealed that she was meant to be going on a date with Joel. Having anticipated this date for years, Joel gets drunk after being stood up. When he discovers that she is with Henrique in Paris, he grows bitter and visits Anita's old photoblog. While looking at the photo she took of him, Joel reveals he's been in love with her for 15 years. Deciding to delete the photo, Joel hacks into Anita's account and accidentally time travels to 2006.

##### **Fabrício**

Starting off as one of Anita's high school bullies, she dreads having to see Fabrício. By traveling back to 2006, Anita alters how Fabrício perceives her and becomes more present in his life by befriending César. The two work together for their own ends, but come to appreciate the many traits in one another. Despite their own machinations failing, Anita and Fabrício become friends. Fabrício eventually develops a crush on Anita and tries to get closer to her via small acts. In his observation of her, Fabrício eventually figures out about the time traveling and reveals so in his confession.