João Ademir

A typical kid from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro starts to support the team that his idol, Neymar, plays for. To his father, this is an unforgivable betrayal.

Juca and Lipe are two boys who spend the day playing ball in the village. Yurinho, a typical boy raised by his grandmother, wants to join in the games.

Salvador, Bahia, January 1835. After more than a decade of hard work, Guilhermina, 27, a slave of Muslim origin, finally gets the resources to buy her manumission, as well as that of Teresa, 11, her teenage daughter. But, contrary to an old promise, his “lord”, farmer Souza Velho, refuses to sell the girl's letter. When Pacific Licutan, Salvador's most esteemed Islamic leadership, is arrested by the Bahian authorities, the Muslim community goes into a boiling state and begins to articulate a jihad. In desperation, Guilhermina sees in the uprising the only way to win her daughter's freedom.

Mauricio is a former player trying to establish himself as an agent in the lucrative world of football. In his new career path, he must grapple with the ghost of his failed playing career and his troubled relationship with his father.

Luna, a girl searching for a cure for her curse of transforming into a maned wolf every full moon, is the daughter of Carol, who began secret genetic research funded by a pharmaceutical group to find a solution to her daughter's problem, the result of a relationship with a werewolf during her days as a Biology student at university.

Inspired by the 1993 Candelária massacre in Rio de Janeiro, four homeless youths—Douglas, Sete, Jesus and Pipoca—navigate street life, dreams, and survival, blending their stories with dreamlike sequences in the 36 hours before the massacre unfolds.