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Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro. A woman is left desperate and hopeless after she is evicted from her house with her disabled son.
On a Sunday, the actors Maria Ribeiro, Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Carolina Dieckmann, Sophie Charlotte, Mateus Solano, Alexandre Nero and Du Moscovis have lunch at one of their houses. The occasion gives way to an incredibly sincere debate on the art of acting, the profession and, above all, the doubts about love and life.
A couple of famous actors have a terrible marriage. Their feelings are so divided that one day one of them leaves, and yet someone just like him seems to have taken his place.
It is a realistic musical documentary, mixing the old and the new, exchanging chronological positions, creating a suggestive carousel for the audience. A tribute to Sérgio Ricardo's cinematographic work narrated through the assembly of scenes and tracks taken from the 7 films he directed. In this anthology, the most recurrent theme in the author's work is portrayed: the struggle of the oppressed worker who finds love, music and the community his escape valve.
Vidigal Hill, 1977. A runaway group of bandits engage in a complex love triangle in the brink of the news that the corrupt Rio de Janeiro mayor decided to make everyone move out of Vidigal, aided by police forces.
The film shows the resistance movement of the residents of Favela do Vidigal against the removal order, an important chapter in the history of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s.
