Renata Carvalho

Biriba is a drug trafficker who leaves his criminal past behind and uses his knowledge to sell the product legally along with the help of his inexperienced investment partner, Vini. He must deal with the countless challenges in the business world and the weight of his past as a drug trafficker. —HBO Latin America Press (imdb)

Sandro works in a fertilizer factory and divides his days between the city club, work, soccer with friends and city parties. He has a purely sexual relationship with his colleague Ricardo. He always seems to be a bit of an outsider, not comfortable in his own skin, not really belonging. When Maicon, a man straight out of a Tom of Finland illustration, shows up in their small town and flirts with Ricardo, his burgeoning feelings of jealousy set a change in motion. (Berlinale)

The beginning of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s when the first wave of the epidemic hit Brazil.