Pedro Vicente

Marina, an upper-class girl, is dating a man in a bar located in a dangerous neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Zeca is a black man who is making a grafitti nearby. Three mysoginous and racist policemen go there to make what police is not supposed to do.

Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portugal after a 16-year exile in Brazil. 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, Spain’s Civil War and Salazar’s New State in Portugal. And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation, Reis. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda, are Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. “Life and Death as one” allows for literature and cinema.

The biopic of Noel Rosa, one of Brazil's best poets and composers.