Yolanda Cardoso

Based on a famous autobiography, this film tells of teenage angst, as lived in the miserable lower middle class Rio bedroom suburbs, by 15 year-old Eliane. To boot, she comes from a dysfunctional family. Her mother is particularly neurotic and bitter, at odds with virtually everything her daughter does. The film strives to be a realistic and sensitive portrayal of human relationships in one of Brazil's poorest urban landscapes. (imdb)

After marriage with Zosimus, Dirty Little Secret lives a modest and coy. But the impulsive behavior of her daughter seems to repeat the impulses that the mother had abandoned in adolescence, after the tragedy caused by Silvio relationship with his cousin.

João can't find work; becomes male prostitute.

Eight shorts in Rio de Janeiro made by six directors. (imdb)