With free eyes, an open heart, good friends and a handful of luck, Gurcius Gewdner revisits some of his adventures of the past five years, survives the relentless Russian winter and asks the following question: How far can an underground Brazilian film go?
Berenice is a dedicated female taxi driver in Rio de Janeiro. She is consumed by her job and the little free time she has needs to be divided between raising her son Thiago, a teenager exploring his sexuality, and her troubled relationship with her husband Domingos, a police reporter. The scars of the worn-out relationship, ruined by her husband's violent outbursts, have erased her femininity and led her into a great existential emptiness. The murder of Isabelle, a beautiful transgender woman, on Copacabana Beach, ignites her investigative side and transforms her life.
On mythical Augusta Street, in San Paulo (Brazil), a journalist who seeks answers for his angst dives into the world of prostitution and neo-Shamanism rituals.
학교에서는 왕따, 집안에서는 찬밥 신세를 면치 못하는 17살의 소녀 라켈은 지겨운 일상을 벗어날 파격적인 결심을 한다. 바로 거리의 콜걸이 되기로 한 것! 라켈은 브루나라는 가명으로 콜걸 일을 시작하고 다혈질의 제닌, 친절한 가비와 친해지며 콜걸로서 자신만의 새로운 사업을 시작하게 된다. 브루나 서피스티나란 이름으로 블로그를 시작하게 된 라켈은 콜걸로서 겪는 자신의 일상을 솔직하게 글로 풀어내고, 곧 라켈의 블로그는 대중들의 인기를 끌며 유명세를 얻게 된다. 점차 그녀를 찾는 고객과 돈, 명성이 늘어가고 순식간에 브라질 최고의 유명인사가 된 라켈! 하지만 마약과 사치로 방탕한 생활에 빠져든 라켈은 최고의 자리에서 점차 내리막길을 걷고, 마약 중독자가 된 그녀를 멀리하는 고객들로 인해 돈까지 바닥나는데…… 과연 그녀는 진정한 자신을 되찾을 수 있을까.
Two years after her arrival in São Paulo, Alice continues her relationship with Nicholas and has begun to look for a place where they can live together. She has also launched a business that produces children's shows, and a stable life seems to be taking shape. But as she goes about the apartment search and shares in the loves and uncertainties of old and new friends, what she observes leaves her far less certain of her decisions and her future.
