Emílio Fontana

The police mobilize their resources to capture Nenê Bandalho and, while he tries to escape, he remembers some of his life's most important episodes.

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

In the 1940s, São Paulo nightlife is the setting for Tezinho's love affairs. In love with Aninha, he needs to get away from the girl and ends up getting involved with other women, including an obsessive relationship with a prostitute.

35mm, Color, 95min42seg, 2.624m, 24q, Eastmancolor