Sérgio Siviero

Brezilya, 1970. Askeri yönetimin gölgesinde yaşayan Brezilya’da, siyasi suçlu olarak polis tarafından aranan Bia ve Daniel, 10 yaşındaki oğulları Mauro’yu dedesinin yanına bırakarak kaçmak zorunda kalır. Fakat Mauro’nun dedesi, torununun kendisini görmeye geldiği gün ölür. Anne babasının tatile gittiğini düşünen Mauro, Yahudi mahallesinde yer alan dedesinin evinde tek başına yaşamaya başlar. Babasının ailesinin Yahudi olmasına rağmen, kendi gelenekleri hakkında hiçbir şey bilmemektedir. Kısa sürede komşular tarafından sevilen Mauro, bir yandan heyecanla ailesinden haber beklerken, diğer yandan da bu yeni ve sıcak dünyanın insanlarına uyum sağlamaya çalışır. Ülkenin baskıcı askeri yönetiminin yansımaları, politikayla ilgilenmeyen Yahudi mahallesi sakinlerini de Mauro nedeniyle etkilemeye başlar.

The ideological conflict between Joaquim Bolívar, a young barber member of the Communist Party and the powerful Coronel Gaudêncio, a typical province political leader.

Nelson, a skeptical and disillusioned journalist, is having strange experiences. The old scientist who lives in his building tries to convince him that these events are linked to an old study of time travel. Nelson's wife Maria receives a logbook that reveals a timeless communication between them.

A successful Brazilian businessman quenches his thirst for death on his nightly drives with his luxury car, until he decides to meet one of his to-be victims out of curiosity.

Three metropolitan stories entwine in São Paulo. Would-be actress Marina arrives in the city looking for independence, falls madly in love with Justine, a bisexual rock singer, and is swept up into her wild, edgy lifestyle. Marina shares a flat on Avenida Paulista with Suzana, a mysterious lawyer who begins a relationship with a male colleague who is unaware that she's transsexual. Jay lives a few floors above them. He is a frustrated writer trying to give a meaning to his life by idealizing a stunningly beautiful prostitute, whom he transforms into a sort of muse. Following the frenetic pace of the city, the three "Paulista" characters will experience the euphoria of passion and its downside.

In São Paulo, Brazil, the lonely 40-something guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment. She is addicted to her only companions: cigarettes. Baby has a constant conflict with her two sisters, over a couch she inherited from their deceased aunt. When Max, a restaurant musician, moves to the next door apartment, Baby has a crush on him and sees a chance to have a life again. Soon they start having a love affair, and Baby decides to quit smoking. However, her abstinence will be tough to deal with, when she notices Max still misses his ex-wife.

Álvares de Azevedo was a 19th century Brazilian romantic writer. He died prematurely (died at the age of 21), but left a significant work for Brazilian literature. Among her, the novel “Noite na Taverna”. The film, loosely inspired by the book, tells a day in the life of its author in parallel with that which is one of its darkest and most complex characters, Johann. Inserted in the same universe (a hypothetical São Paulo of 1850), Álvares lives a normal day of his academic life while Johann is involved in a death duel that triggers in several other consequences such as murder and rape.

Karin, Magali and Luna are three call girls, who decide to apply some marketing knowledge on the world's oldest profession.