Summary: Juliano and Joaquim leave Rio de Janeiro in search for the dream of gold. The year is 1978. Both arrive at the Amazon Rainforest like so many human beings had arrived. Full of dreams and illlusions. But the life in the mining change them. The obsession by the richness and the power destroy them. Juliano becomes a gangster. Joaquim leaves all his values behind. A story about the golden fever, about ganancy and violence. About a great friendship and its break-up. (Globofilmes)