Rafael de Carvalho

Lambusca, a man from the State of Paraíba, Brazil, goes to São Paulo, looking for a job. But he ends up working for a group of fishy loan sharks, collecting money. In one of his visits, the debtor dies. The police then starts chasing him, believing he had murdered the man.

En São Paulo, en 1980, el joven obrero Tião y su novia María deciden casarse al saber que ella está embarazada. Al mismo tiempo, estalla una huelga en la fábrica donde trabaja Tião. El movimiento divide a los operarios. El temor a perder su trabajo y a no poder hacer frente a sus obligaciones, lo lleva a oponerse a la huelga y, por lo tanto, a su padre, un sindicalista que estuvo en la cárcel en los primeros años de la dictadura. (FILMAFFINITY)

Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is well until he is mistaken for a multinational worker who killed the boss at a party where he received the title of symbolic worker.

When Daniela, a famous actress, decides to return to her hometown to reconnect with a simpler lifestyle, local politicians decide to exploit her influence in order to get ambiguous deeds done.

In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of Copacabana. Unsatisfied with their way of life, the couple decides to accept the offer of becoming housekeepers of a rich man's vacation residence in a beach town.

Man leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He tries to rebuild his life, but falls in love with a woman who despises him, which drives him mad.

A newlywed woman, frustrated after her honeymoon, decides to search for lovers on the streets and ends up causing a conflict between her husband, a baker and a black artist.

"Lula, 'bon vivant' who subsists at the expense of small blows, goes on with his life without a present or future purpose. Basically, he just tries to forget having been abandoned by his fiancee Helena, who gave in to his father's imposition. The situations in which he gets involved from then on are paradoxical, trying to survive in the best possible way and spending money he doesn't have, but which comes to him in one way or another. On a day of complete despair, Lula meets a group of "hippies" and leaves catechized. Willing to anything, he becomes a preacher of new customs and new ethics of life. In turn, Helena, whose marriage had failed, dreams of meeting Lula again, hoping to return to his arms.

A man, trying to get a job, meets a lot of unusual characters on his way.

El director logra una caricatura aguda de la condición humana y su satirización, provocando risas espontáneas cuándo se detiene en los absurdos del racismo, la personalidad de los indios y el modo en que las distintas clases sociales se devoran entre sí. La película se inspira en una famosa novela de Mario de Andrade, fundador del "Movimiento Literario Modernista" de los años 20 y narra la historia y la metamorfosis de Macunaíma, el héroe perezoso y sin ningún carácter, que nace negro en el interior de Brasil. Emigra con sus hermanos hacia la gran ciudad en busca de un amuleto de la suerte, y en el camino se vuelve blanco. En la ciudad entablará una relación con una guerrillera urbana y un magnate capitalista.