Zeca Cenovicz

Dans le grand restaurant de la vie, il y a ceux qui mangent et ceux qui sont mangés. Raimundo Nonato occupe la meilleure place : celle du Chef. Tout juste débarqué en ville sans le sou, Nonato trouve un job dans un restaurant sans prétention. Malgré son air bête, il apprend vite à faire les meilleurs « coxinhas » du quartier.

In an isolated countryside house founded by an elite, surrounded by slavery memories, a crossdresser retreat is set up. Far from the Brazilian dictatorship of the 70’s, men dress themselves with a glamour and delirious reality. This forged freedom crumbles when the real world infiltrates the house. Crossing the thin line between lies and truths. A fatality is just a matter of time…

Through succeeding childhood photos, a girl begins to remember her personality, which in contrast to her sister’s, already strayed from assigned gender roles. The narration is addressed to her mother, as if attempting to establish a communication between different universes. The camera follows as the girl, now a teenager, enjoys herself accompanied by her friend and other night characters in the village, breaking gender and sexuality conventions, where the freedom of the body, and consequently of the soul, entails lightness.

Roberto is in the edge to become a father for the first time. He was already dreaming of the years yet to come, wondering how his son would be. While trying to figure out how to act like a father he must also face and endure a tough reality - to be a Down syndrome child's dad. Insecure and ashamed of the situation he will have to confront and overcome it.

In 1894, with a coup d'état, President Floriano Peixoto closed down The National Congress, soon reinstated with co-religionaries in key positions. In the south of Brazil, the Maragatos revolutionaries would not come to terms with this. They rebelled and marched to Rio de Janeiro to join Admiral Saldanha's troops and depose the President in an episode known today as the Federalist Revolution. The rebels fought bloody battles with Floriano soldiers during the march. Idelfonso Corrêa is a quiet, reserved citizen of humble origin who becomes the Baron of Serro Azul. His mature demeanor makes him a choice for mediator between both groups. Midst negotiations and difficulties to safeguard the family and his protegés, the Baron expands his domains, starts a newspaper, a bank, and exports herva-mate. With the battle over, his form of address, Baron, becomes synonymous with traitors.

Commander Vasco Moscoso de Aragão entertains the small town of Periperi with the stories of his many adventures travelling around the world as a captain of the merchant navy. Stubborn Chico Pacheco is the only one in town who doesn't believe his tales.

Renata lives isolated in the countryside with her teenage daughter and her husband, conceiving fear as a common feeling. The arrival of a stranger awakens in her the desire for all that was asleep.