An exemplary citizen leaves as a legacy, in addition to his vast predicates, something totally unexpected: photos and compromised documents of his clandestine love life and political conspiracies.
Roberto and Mitsuo return to Brazil on the same day, after a long season living abroad. Their lives intersect because of land negotiated by their parents in the past. Without money, the two see on the ground a possibility of getting financially right. However, some events make them believe the terrain is magical. Like a fable, the film shows us that in order to obtain some desires, it is necessary to give up others.
In Rio de Janeiro, the forty and something years old Mercedes (Lília Cabral) goes to the psychoanalyst and tells the story of her life since she was a girl and lost her mother. Along the three years of analysis, her life changes and she divorces from her husband Gustavo (José Mayer) and has love affairs with the younger Theo (Reynaldo Gianecchini)
The story of a young black man, Héracles, who after being released from a juvenile institution, tries to apply for his first honest job as a motorcycle delivery boy. To get the job, he has to perform 12 hard tasks in São Paulo.
Aurélia, a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, is seeing Fábio Tavares, who gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he discovers the victim of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.
Some brazilian chicks are kidnapped by girl dealers and carried away on a small airplane to take them to the amazon jungle. What follows is catch as catch can between two groups of gangs... but the girls have fun anyway...
In the brothel of Jandira, there is a fight and the stranger Wilson is rescued by the local Marcos that brings him to his camp house. On the next morning, Marcos offers the job of lookout of his warehouse where he keeps a supply of fibers. Soon Wilson discovers that Marcos is a drug dealer that supplies São Paulo. When Marcos brings his sexy wife Silvia to the house, she seduced Wilson as part of a scheme to lure Wilson. Then Marcos pretend to find that Silvia is cheating him with Wilson and he shots Marcos with a weapon loaded with blankets as part of his frame-up.