Irene Brietzke

Young filmmaker is looking for a story for his first feature film. In an attempt to obtain the copyright for a novel, the young man accepts the author's unusual proposal and together they set off in search of an old love of the writer.

Chico, un adolescent en vacances sur la «plus longue et la pire plage au monde», rencontre Roza dans un salon de jeux. Il tombe amoureux. Ils font l'amour la nuit de leur première rencontre, mais elle disparaît aussitôt. Avec son ami Juca, Chico recherche Roza sur la plage, en vain. C'est seulement après les vacances qu'il la revoit. Quand Chico veut parler de leur nuit, Roza lui annonce qu'elle est enceinte.

Two friends try to get to a restaurant for dinner and get lost in the labyrinth of bars, walls and fences in a city.

Ciba (Rodrigo Santoro) is an independent investigator who works together with the police. A typical fallible hero who struggles with strong personal issues, while preventing crime and injustice. His partner, Deputy Ulisses (Luis Miranda), is a well-meaning professional who recognizes the difficulty in securing his function using only common artifacts, and Ciba's unofficial contact is of utmost importance for the progress of his investigations.

Written in 1625 by the British playwright Ben Jonson, the play “The Staple of News” provides a historic root for this discussion about the role of the press in modern day Brazil. Journalists of several generations discuss the dilemmas of the selection and focus of their subjects, the resistance of the media in accepting itself as a political agent, the inevitability of interpretation as there are no hard facts in nature, and above all the search for an always complex balance between credibility and the public’s growing demand for news.