Mariana Loureiro

En avril 1910, dans le nord-est pauvre du Brésil, une chemise tachée de sang se balance au vent. Tonho, fils cadet des Breves, est contraint par son père de venger la mort de son frère aîné, victime d'une lutte ancestrale entre familles pour des questions de terres. S'il remplit sa mission, Tonho sait que sa vie sera scindée en deux : les vingt ans qu'il a vécus, et le peu de temps qu'il lui restera à vivre. Il sera pourchassé par un membre de la famille rivale, comme le dicte le code de vengeance de la région. Angoissé par la perspective de la mort et instigué par son petit frère Pacou, Tonho commence à douter de la logique de la violence et des traditions. C'est alors que deux artistes d'un petit cirque itinérant croisent son chemin...

When straight-laced Jefferson finds out his drug-dealing brother is dead, he returns to São Paulo with his childhood friend to identify the body. The journey raises memories of their shared childhood and poses a choice for their future.

Marco is a lonely handicapped Spanish smuggler, driving through Brazil to sell out his cheap goods. When two bandits assault him and steal his load, he is miraculously saved by Carmo, a beautiful local girl who would rather die than spend another day in the hellhole where she lives. Carmo and Marco will start a lawless, reckless journey, and an intense romance through a breathtaking South American border landscape.

In 1850 the Italian dancer Maria Baderna arrives at Brazil, her fame and the scandals she provokes turns her name in a common expression. The film uses passages supposed to be about her to criticize modern Brazil, the dictatorship period and also a homage to filmmakers like Rogério Sganzerla.

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.