Jersiano Vieira

Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé (Thiago Martins) is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette (Cyria Coentro) in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão (Rocco Pitanga) has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina (Vitória Frate). Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro (Paulo César Grande), who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. How...

Laranjinha et Acerola vont bientôt avoir 18 ans. Ils ont grandi ensemble dans les favelas de Rio de Janeiro. Acerola est marié et a un fils de deux ans dont il doit s'occuper. Habitué à sa liberté, il se sent prisonnier et vit sa paternité comme un fardeau. Pour Laranjinha, le problème n'est pas d'être père, mais de ne jamais en avoir eu. Bien décidé à retrouver son géniteur, il commence à fouiller dans son passé. Alors que les deux amis se débattent avec les premières épreuves de l'âge adulte, ils sont entraînés malgré eux dans les guerres intestines que se livrent les trafiquants de drogue et les bandes locales...