The story, set at the end of the Federalist Revolution of 1893, follows the saga of Gumercindo Saraiva's son trying to rescue his father's head, decapitated and sent to governor Júlio de Castilhos.
Helem is a 9 year old girl living in a tenement house in Bixiga. The girl lives with her grandmother, Dona Maria, who plays the role of mother, father and supports the ...
The film explores how a nation of mixed races absorbed eugenic ideas to the point of denying its own multiracial past, pathetically seeking an unattainable standard of European aesthetics.
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