Cleide Queiroz

Nenê has been married to Geralda for 30 years. One Sunday afternoon, as usual, he goes to a samba to meet his friends. When he comes home, he finds a surprise. His wife was taken to the hospital. Without letting the ball drop, he finds a solution to be near his beloved wife.

A dark tale about a drug addict who internalizes his life through a paranoid trip. Slowly he makes sense of his past, and spares no one in the process.

Open City Radio broadcasts the "Wherever You Are" program on a weekly basis, where people try to communicate with missing relatives and friends. Behind the scenes of the program several life stories cross and become.

La prison de Carandiru, à São Paulo, est la plus grande d'Amérique latine. Dans cet endroit surpeuplé et délabré, un célèbre médecin doit mener un programme de prévention contre le sida. Habitué à la médecine haut de gamme, il va devoir apprendre à se débrouiller en se fiant à son instinct. Peu à peu, il découvre les détenus, leur monde à part, leur humanité et leur fabuleuse envie de vivre. A force de contacts et de temps, il gagne leur respect et partage leurs secrets. A travers son regard, c'est toute la tragédie sociale d'un pays qui se révèle, jusqu'au jour du terrible massacre de Carandiru...

Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.