Maria Thereza Mello

A pickpocket assumes various identities to steal from the aristocracy in early-20th-century Rio de Janeiro.

Benjamim Zambraia is a young drunk who wanders around the city and is sometimes treated with pampering and sometimes with a beating by his parents (Helena Ignez and Otávio Terceiro). As in Chico's book, the boy is obsessed with a big stone.