In this highly stylized Brazilian drama a sax player fondly remembers one wonderful night spent with his life's love and decides to find her again. He embarks upon a quest through the wild streets of Rio to find her. Along the way he meets an assortment of odd urban underworld characters.
Unemployed, penniless in the big city and after accidentally stealing and killing his landlady, Antonio flees Rio de Janeiro towards Northeast of Brazil to find his mother. On the way he meets a beautiful woman and a pair of criminals.
This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.
Rozilda
Соня Брага играет прекрасную женщину, чей муж, игрок и бабник, умирает после того, как провеселился всю ночь напролет на карнавале. Решив снова выйти замуж, вдова выбирает скучного аптекаря средних лет, который любовью занимается раз в год по обещанию. Как-то ночью, когда она лежала в постели рядом со своим спящим мужем, появился призрак ее первого супруга. Она пытается от него избавиться, но он отказывается исчезать. В конце концов она уступает и ложится с ним в постель, а второй муж тем временем продолжает мирно посапывать.
A poor college student becomes a homosexual millionaire's lover in order to get ahead in life. The latter marries a woman for convenience, and the newlyweds end up sharing the young man.
After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde. In poor health, Zulmira makes all the preparations for the day of her death and asks her unemployed husband to deal with the costs of the coffin and funeral with a man named João Guimarães Pimentel. What Tom doesn't know is that Zulmira and this man hide some secrets that he could never imagine.
In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.
