Magdale Alves

une ville perdue au milieu de champs de canne à sucre. Terre de désolation, elle abrite une communauté gangrenée par la dépravation de ses habitants. La jeune Auxiliadora vit avec son grand père Heitor, qui abuse d'elle. Entre latifundistes décadents, prostituées maltraitées et patriarcat misogyne, l'avenir d'Auxiliadora paraît bien sombre...

Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he falls in love with, the Odaleia (Nanda Costa). After the birth of his son and his wife's health complications, he decides to return to the road to ensure a better future for his son. He has a friend in Rio de Janeiro and with him leaves the little one and heads to Brazil. He didn't imagine that this distance between them would develop into a complicated relationship, enhanced by the strong personalities of both. Based on conversations between father and son, this is the story of Luiz Gonzaga, a singer and accordion player known as Rei do Baião or Gonzagão.

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A middle-class family living in a house filled with superfluous electronic appliances see the arrival of a new item, a 29" TV-set.

Epaminondas is a low-income middle-class civil servant in the early 1970s. He is an ordinary man, a family man, whose day-to-day life is surrounded by bureaucratic commitments and can no longer stand the banal routine he is subjected to.

Desires and frustrations emerge from the encounter of two characters, Miguel (a filmmaker) and Alano (a rent boy), where Alano’s pursuit of pleasure contrasts with Miguel’s quest for company.

Leandro is a sommelier with a penchant for women and fine wine. After seducing his boss’s wife, he is taken by surprise by the true love he feels for the married couple’s daughter, Antônia, which makes him doubt his convictions and plunge madly into a torrent of passion. When Jaime becomes aware of his wife’s infidelity, his fury coincides with the disappearance of the sommelier. Was it a planned escape or a crime of passion? The uncertainty only increases the suspense in this explosive mixture of action, romance and mystery.