خلاصه داستان : فیلمی بر اساس خاطرات پرفروش مارسلو روبنس پایوا، که در آن مادرش پس از دستگیری همسرش توسط رژیم نظامی برزیل در سال 1964، ناچار به فعالیت‌های سیاسی می‌شود.

In the early 1970s, the military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family - Rubens, Eunice, and their five children - live in a beachside house in Rio, open to all their friends. One day, Rubens is taken for questioning and does not return.

خلاصه داستان : پدرش درگذشت ، وی حدود 10 سال با برادرش صحبت نکرده و مبتلا به سرطان جدی است. دیگو یک کارگردان با استعداد فیلم است که به سختی می تواند با بیماری خود کنار بیاید و همین باعث می شود دوستان و خانواده خود را از دست بدهند. بهترین دوست و پزشک او ریکاردو به او...

Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says goodbye to his friends and begins a routine of long days of treatment in hospital. While learning to live with the pain and also conversing with death, he meets a Hindu boy who is a fellow patient and who becomes his friend. But one day the boy disappears. Diego is discharged, but his life has changed forever. His marriage fails and, living alone, he begins to wonder whether he may in fact be dying and no one has told him. He tries to find out what happened to his Hindu friend, and eventually meets another woman.