Adélia Sampaio

Documentary about a political episode during the Brazilian military dictatorship, which resulted in the issue of the Institutional Act #5 (AI-5), abolishing freedom of opinion in Brazil, and marking the transition to the toughest period of violation of human rights in the country. The episode was the Congress Assembly on December 12th, 1968, in which its members denied permission to punish congressman Márcio Moreira Alves, as was the Government's wish.

An elderly couple decides to commit suicide after receive a eviction order. The first short-film of Adélia Sampaio, the first black woman in Brazil to direct a feature film.

Eugênio falls in love for Margarida, a poor girl who lives in his parents' farm. In order to avoid their love affair, the parents send him to a Catholic Seminary to be a priest. Just before his ordination, he meets Margarida again, and their old feelings for each other are triggered once more.

Friends Severina and Maria José struggle to survive in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro. The first is a widow who sells flowers and the second has a lover who does little to help with expenses. Their children sell peanuts during the day. One day, the children get lost and are found again at Jaks' house, who offers to sell Severina certain suspicious merchandise, disguised among the roses.

Two young women with different social backgrounds have a lesbian relationship. The real problems begin when one of them also gets involved with a man, a journalist.

A poor man from the North Zone of Rio, head of a family, Roy struggles in every way to survive and accepts a job as a professional laugher on a TV station; Casimiro de Abreu de Sousa lives in a fantasy world in which he imagines himself to be part of high society. His daughter's wedding awakens in Casimiro the desire to achieve everything he has always fantasized about.

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.