Arnaldo Ramalho

"It's tomorrow, Chico. Can you believe it? ", says Romano to his cellmate. After so many years together, confined to that precarious iron box, the wait will finally come to an end. A few hours separates them from freedom. One will be released; the other, executed. Anyway, at sunrise, they won't be there anymore. It's their last moments, after all, it's almost morning.

After eight years of a political exile imposed by the Brazilian military dictatorship, sociologist Herbert de Souza returns to his homeland. Alongside democracy activists, he faces the arrival of AIDS and puts the devastating impact of hunger under the spotlight. Overcoming his fragile health and personal tragedy, he creates the largest social awareness campaign in Brazilian history.