Daniela Piepszyk

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.

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.

Produced for TV Cultura within the project Telefilmes IV: Music and City, this made-for-TV film follows the story of Erica, a 14-year-old teenager growing up in Brazil, who has to learn how to deal with her British mother who is going off the rails. Living amidst an anxiety that switches between fear and love for her mother, Erica tries to find her way in a ship that seems to be sinking rapidly. It is in this moment that she picks up a guitar, and in her relationship with it, finds a way to re-shape her reality.

In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover around buildings and endless flatlands in search of the ever elusive love. Inspired by 19th century Russian short stories, the plots weave and unravel together in the improbable city of Brasilia – a distorted mirror-image of the Soviet utopia – located in the heart of the Brazilian desert.

The starting point is the approach of the architect Clara, mother of Carol and Léo, and the engineer Miguel, recently separated and very close to his daughter Júlia. In addition to her children, Clara lives with her ex-husbands Fred and Paulo, her ex-stepdaughter Bia, her sister Nanda and her maid and nanny Salete. In Miguel's universe, in addition to his daughter, there are ex-wife Ruth, partner and brother-in-law Otávio and sister Lorena. Clara and Miguel will also have to live with the personal dramas of clients Teodoro and Ingrid: he has four children from previous relationships and no desire to become a father again; and she years younger and determined to have her first child.