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Helen lives in a cortiço with her grandmother, Mrs. Graça, who supports the family with informal jobs, such as selling skewers. Still very naive, her biggest concern is buying her grandmother a birthday present: a makeup kit. The girl is going to bend over backwards to get the money and her search will reveal the daily life of those living in tenements, outlining a collective story from the network of relations that the girl establishes.

A film about one of the great names in Brazilian literature: Ignácio de Loyola Brandão—writer, journalist, cinephile, keen observer of reality, and dreamer. Subverting roles, the documentary turns the storyteller into the protagonist of a narrative that intertwines the many men existing within a single person.