在弹丸大小的丛林之中，一老妪奇迹般地产下男孩Macunaima。出生既已成人的Macunaima为了实现生命的意义，带领着家人朋友们踏上了去往大都市的旅程。一路上，光怪陆离之事接二连三地发生，但Macunaima仍保持着一颗纯真的童心。到达了城市之后，他阴差阳错地被恐怖分子拉去闹革命，并经历了种种荒诞滑稽的事件，也从中对生活有了更深的理解……。这部由同名小说改编的电影为新浪潮运动注入了新的审美理念，影片融合了流行喜剧元素与通俗“热带主义”，在60年代末期的电影中具有标志性的意义。

Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.

Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by the roadside. Strongly painted lips, printed dress with round skirt and red shoes matching the color of the lipstick, she catches his attention. He gives her a ride, the two of them stare in silence for a few moments. They introduce themselves to one another and between the two establishes an absurd dialogue and full of metaphors. And they are driving around in corners of Rio de Janeiro, to the sound of Noel Rosa and Lamartine Babo. Eva and Antena, she a seer, he, an assassin on the run, initiate an unusual case of love, a marginal love, where boredom often gives way to tragedy, creating the agony of a holiday spent in an abyss.

巴西边缘电影早期的作品，Bressane一贯的实验性风格，混合黑色喜剧与超现实的布景，是部不错的片，但也许只是相对于那些习惯了看地下电影的观众来说吧。

Numa cidade provinciana, nestor tem um ataque erotico. e o pai resolve prometer um encontro do filho com a prostituta local. o rapaz fracassa, mancha a honra da familia e o pai o expulsa de casa. por razoes. quase sempre as alheias a sua capacidade viril, o pobre coitado nao consegue sua virgindade, nem mesmo na cidade para onde parte. numa festa de granfinos, travestido, o donzelo consegue atrair uma lesbica e lograr seu intento.