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An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his mother marrying his uncle.
A panel of Brazilian political scenery in 1967, alternating images of the main events and politicians and specialists' statements about freedom of the press.
With death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil, such as the Lieutenants' Movement, and the 1964 coup.
Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is well until he is mistaken for a multinational worker who killed the boss at a party where he received the title of symbolic worker.
Vicente, a tax collector, is sent to a distant region to defy the dominion of Melo, a powerful landowner. When Melo's henchmen burn down the collector's office building, the government retaliates by deploying soldiers, overseen by Carvalho, a hard-headed judge. Carvalho orders the soldiers to invade Melo's land, which prompts the start of a full-blown war.
A brief tribute to Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari relating to his humble beginnings as a citizen born in the town of Brodósqui, located on the countryside of São Paulo. Some of his paintings and poems are presented along with some archive images.
Mateus, his wife Antônia, their three kids and his brother Pedro opened a grocery/bar in Goiânia, Brazil, in 1959, called "Armazém Brazil". But in the opening party, the Police, headed by a violent inspector nicknamed "Capitão", arrive to arrest, with extreme violence, an outlaw known as "Flexa". This violent scene scars the family permanently and becomes the prelude to a tragedy.
A storyteller in Brasilia entertains the visitors of a bar with his narratives.