When bandits take the town of Sertânia, Antão gets shot, arrested, and left to die. Bleeding out, Antão's delirious mind begins to recall the events that led up to the incident through a sequence of increasingly unreliable fever dreams.
Vertin MouraAntão / Gavião
Julio AdriãoCapitão Jesuíno / Pai de Antão
Kecia PradoMãe de Antão
Lourinelson VladmirDelmiro Gouveia / Major Sólon / Coronel MilitãoIgor de CarvalhoNeblinaHenzo Gabriel M. VieiraAntão criançaGilsergio BotelhoSeu Filó / Padre Colombê
Edgard NavarroAntonio ConselheiroSara GalvãoDona SantinhaIsa MeiDona Mocinha
After 20 years missing, João Grilo returns to Taperoá to join his old friend Chicó and, after his story of resurrection spreads, he is disputed as an electoral candidate by the two most powerful politicians in the city.
Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a young farmer called Espedito; he is nursed back to health by a hermit who thinks he has been sent by God and therefore baptizes him the Redeemer. Espedito/The Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesn’t really understand what he’s doing until he befriends the proverbial European intellectual, a Dutch Oil prospector, who introduces him to important people. Espedito is hired by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides …
A coroner reunites with a great love from the past, realizing that the memories are more vivid than ever.
In the year 3003, two scientists find a primitive being called Ooga Ooga in the middle of the woods. They decide to adopt him and try to insert him into today's society.
On a visit to the interior of Piauí, Paula is kidnapped by a maniacal ex-boyfriend. In captivity, she meets Joaquim, a good man who made wrong choices in life. Feeling a mix of despair and faith, Paula decides to evangelize him while awaiting rescue.
Lost in the middle of nowhere, a pregnant Woman and a hopeful Man walk in search of Getting There, an unknown place where Hope reigns and the days are good. The Death, always lurking, tries to change the paths of the wanderers and transform their dreams into hopelessness. A seed given by Hope can change the course of the retreatants and take them to the long-awaited place of prosperity.
In a small city in northeastern Brazil, a poor family goes though many hardships and pains while seeking a better life.
Tomás and Valentim are two young men who have just entered their twenties, full of dreams, illusions, and disappointments. The two enter a relationship seeking to fill the emptiness within themselves, but soon realize that for a relationship to work, it takes much more than desire.