Nilsinho Dias

In 1980, best friends Juliano and Joaquin join the gold rush at Serra Pelada, Bald Mountain, a mountain town near the mighty Amazon river. As the town grows in numbers, it also sees an explosion in violent crime and pollution. Soon the friends' dreams of hitting the jack pot are shattered. Winner of the 2014 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize.

The miniseries tells the story of two childhood friends. Juliano and Joaquim leave their lives in São Paulo behind to pursue a dream: finding gold in the interior of Pará. The plot is set against the backdrop of the true story of the modern world's largest open-pit gold mine. More than 100,000 workers were drawn to Serra Pelada in the 1980s.