Daniela Fontan

Ângela Cristina, mother of teenager Maria de Lourdes, has to deal with the difficulties and delights of guiding her daughter during one of the most complicated stages of life.

Luiza, a shy, awkward 15 year-old girl from Rio, dreams of being an artist. Her life is just starting to make sense when Luiza's world falls apart when her mother suffers an acute schizophrenic episode. Determined to hold her family together, Luiza must find the strength to face fear, loneliness and discrimination as she takes over the household and her mother's care.

At 45 years old, architect Ulisses—feeling lost in his career and unconvinced of his talents—visits a "vocational coach" who promises to find his true vocation. After drinking a suspicious tea in the coach’s crazy ritual, Ulisses blacks out and awakes to find his belongings stolen. Mysteriously, Ulisses also comes away with a strange power: the ability to see people's true vocations by just touching them. Will Ulisses be able to handle his new gift?

Waldisney works as a doorman in a building where confusion is constant. However, the employee is great at maintaining a certain order. When wrongly accused of stealing something, he will need to prove that he is anything but a thief.

Aunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and ends up being convinced by her sisters, Vanda and Valquíria, to move to another city in order to take care of her parents. Taking place in just one day, the film follows Virginia's preparation to receive the sisters who are coming to her house to celebrate Christmas.

When a market vendor is mysteriously murdered, Monarca - an unconventional detective who blends investigative instincts with paranormal gifts... and a knack for getting into trouble - steps onto the scene. Alongside the victim’s own chatty spirit, "Bode," he tackles an investigation rife with shouting matches, gossip, and revelations amidst Brazil’s liveliest street market.

Brazilian politician João Ernesto surrenders to justice and is arrested for corruption, before attempting to overturn with sincerity and real proposals.

The singer Dalva de Oliveira and the composer Herivelto Martins lived intensely on the stage and in life. The 13 years of marriage and the disagreements, which gained emphasis with the separation, contributed to an important artistic and cultural production.

Benjamim Zambraia is a young drunk who wanders around the city and is sometimes treated with pampering and sometimes with a beating by his parents (Helena Ignez and Otávio Terceiro). As in Chico's book, the boy is obsessed with a big stone.