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- Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region in downtown São Paulo of the fifties where various nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars, and drugs can be found). Hiroito was a well born bohemian and at the age of 21 was accused for the murder of his father, who was violently stabbed over 40 times with a razor. Hiroito was not charged, however two months after the death of his father, Hiroito bought two guns and moved to Boca do Lixo and became one of the most dangerous criminals of the region.
- Through a personal investigation of her niece, Mariana Pamplona, the film recover the life of the guerrilla Iara Iavelberg. She was a cultured and beautiful woman who left behind a comfortable family life, opting to engage in an armed struggle against the military dictatorship in Brazil. Living in hiding, in on routine of kidnappings and armed actions, she became the companion of the ex-army caption Carlos Lamarca, sharing whit him the post of one of the most sought after targets of the military regime. The film dismantles the official version of the dictatorship, which attributes Iara's death in Salvador in 1971 to a suicide.
- Documentary about the first attempt to fight the military dictatorship since 1964. On the mountains of Caparaó, in august 1966, a group of former officers tried to start a great national reaction against the new regime, in an attempt to replicate a "Sierra Maestra" on Brazilian lands.
- A convertible car enters the city of São Paulo bringing two people aboard. They ride 24 hours unfolding the views of a big city.