Bete Mendes

Union leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism. (imdb)

Three segments based on stories in the Brazilian book of the same name.

In 1942, in Rio de Janeiro, the twenty-five years old Alaíde is run over while crossing Carioca Street. She arrives in coma in the hospital, and while being submitted to an emergency surgery, she recalls her life since her family moved to a former brothel, mixing hallucination, reality and memory. (imdb)

João da Silva Brown, or just JS Brown, is a resident of Salvador and always been a fan of comics, movies and TV shows adventure and superheroes. Once he learns of a course for detectives and solves attend. With her ​​bachelor's private detective, assembles an office and place an ad in the newspaper. One day two men break into his room and he is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious woman, Sandra Carbucci, who hires him to find a girl named Cris..

A curious story: it rains whenever a couple of lovers meet. Against the weather forecast, it rains all over the city. And as the love grows, the stronger becomes the rain. Found by a television crew, they receive the title of "Rain Lovers", and their dates become public spectacles. But all the commercialization starts to cool off their relationship, and the rain doesn't come anymore. (imdb)

In the interior of Brazil, between the archaic and the contemporary world, a family lives its anguish in an atmosphere of desire and repression. Based on argument by writer Lucio Cardoso.

The greatest civil war Brazil ever faced by the point of view of the seven women of the separatist leader's family. (imdb)