A phenomenon of popularity in the 1960s, Wilson Simonal saw his meteoric career fall apart when he was accused of collaborating with the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Small-town trickster Pedro Malasartes has to face two great enemies: Próspero, who will do anything to impede such a lazy, cowardly person like Malasartes from dating his sister, Áurea; and Death incarnated, who wants to take a vacation after two thousand years collecting lives and intends on tricking Malasartes into assuming his tedious job.
En Brasilia, a comienzos de los años 80. Joao do Santo Cristo es un joven marginal que se enamora de Maria Lucia, una estudiante de arquitectura. A su alrededor, la capital de Brasil resulta una ciudad cada vez más convulsa en un conflicto de intereses entre traficantes de droga y la policía mientras el régimen de la dictadura militar vislumbra su final.
