Fernanda Young

Nelita, Nina and Rita are all in their seventies and have been friends since childhood, and for fifty years they play the lottery weekly and are used to losing, until one day they win. Not too much money but enough to fix their lives, as long as their husbands don't find out beforehand.

Over the course of one night, the trivial squabbles of five couples from the same apartment building escalate into potentially relationship-ending rows.

Over the course of one night, the trivial squabbles of five couples from the same apartment building escalate into potentially relationship-ending rows.

Inspired by the book "A Louca Debaixo do Branco" by writer Fernanda Young.

Inspired by the book "A Louca Debaixo do Branco" by writer Fernanda Young.

After thirteen years of engagement, the boring sex life of Rui and Vani is limited to one intercourse every other week. They decide to seek excitement with a threesome and they decide to invite Vani's cousin Silvinha to participate late night, but an accident interrupts their game. Rui and Vani unsuccessfully spend the night searching for for companion of a bisexual woman.

Nádia Wolf, nicknamed by her colleagues "Nada Fofa", is a cold and tough lawyer. Until she starts seeing a puppet everywhere: movie theaters, restaurants, stores, etc. He's a famous character from a children's show from when she was a kid. The pink foam doll appears to Nadia every time she's not nice to the others, asking her to be nice. These apparitions affect the girl's work as well as her love life.

Roberta and Suzana are two sisters, both in their thirties, of totally different beauty and life styles, united by a common goal: to take revenge on their grandmother, a mean old woman who, in the past, turned the little girls' lives into hell, with her strict educational concepts. Since they were very young, the two sisters plan to kidnap the grandmother and now is the long awaited moment. Before Roberta and Suzana leave to the beach house, the setting of their grandmother's terrorist practices, Roberta, while waiting for Suzana at a restaurant, meets Renato, an extremely proper guy who ends up involved in this unexpected adventure. The two sisters' departure leaves Suzana's husband, Alberto, bewildered and he ends up being also part of a parallel mad adventure.

Bossa Nova is a romantic comedy that enfolds many love convergences and divergences, in today’s Rio de Janeiro. It’s in the city’s “useless landscape” that the lonely hearts of nine characters will cross destinies and they’ll discover new passions. The meeting place for these journeys is a charming English teacher, Mary Ann Simpson, former airline stewardess, who’s been living in Rio for two years, since she became a widow, and the newly separated Pedro Paulo. They approach each other without a hint that their lives will be linked by many characters and incidents.