Petronio Medeiros

Maria Estrela is a girl who loves listening to bedtime stories. But tired of hearing the same stories over and over again, she decides to make up a “fantastical tale” of her own, telling the story of how the Terrible Mapinguari of the Amazon, a gigantic, one-eyed monster with a huge mouth in its belly, lost its only eye in the forest, and how the fearless Maria Estrela, riding Esperança, her fabulous winged Boi-Bumbá, sets off on a quest to find the Mapinguari’s lost eye.

The work reimagines the legend of the Icamiabas, the legendary warrior women of the Amazon, in an urban and fantastical setting.

The Icamiabas, gentle Iuna, worried Laci, laid-back Thyhi, and hot-tempered Conori, are four Indigenous girls with incredible skills and magical weapons who, acting as interns for the gods, solve every problem between humans and fantastical beings in the cosmopolitan, eco-friendly Amazon City, while also trying to live a normal life with their friends and studies!