Kiko Dinucci

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

Tony and his best friend, Ivy, decide to rob the bar where he works to steal a new drug that will take them on a journey to meet God.

Sandra is an insurance broker staying at a hotel with her team for a training session led by a famous coach. When a mysterious phone call wakes her in her room, she realizes she is being watched by a foreign guest.

It’s dripping through the ceiling, the space for sleeping is scarce. Under poor living conditions, a young mother handles everyday life with her two daughters in the Brazilian suburb as best she can. When they unexpectedly acquire a load of frog legs, this gives rise to a celebration that will not soon be forgotten.

Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support their ten-year-old son. He mostly works nights, so in addition to his encounters with a colourful variety of customers, colleagues, cops and others, he must cope with loneliness, fatigue and new faces in his life.

Two wandering characters walk through a city ravaged by real estate speculation looking for movie theaters in downtown São Paulo, but only find evangelical churches, porn theaters, parking lots and ruins.

To start again, one has to destroy.