里约热内卢的中央车站，朵拉（费尔南达-蒙特内格罗Fernanda Montenegro饰）在这里帮人写信。但她会把看不顺眼的信统统撕掉不寄，甚至公开读信里的内容取乐。朵拉生活拮据，年纪不小却还未嫁，或许在她内心，人与人之间的真情根本就不值得信赖。
小男孩约书亚（文尼西斯•狄•奥利维拉Vinícius de Oliveira 饰）的出现令她开始了一段重新认识人生的旅程——约书亚很想见到远方素未谋面的父亲，不断写信给他。男孩母亲意外的车祸让朵拉决定陪伴约书亚前往东北部寻找父亲。在约书亚眼中，即使父亲很陌生，却总是骄傲地谈起父亲。而朵拉，也同样有着一段和父亲的痛苦往事。在约书亚寻父的过程中，朵拉因为往事而冰冻的内心慢慢回暖。

Brazilian town of Santa An-du-Agreshte welcomes his "prodigal daughter" Tieta, after a very long absence. When Tieta was 17, her father and older sister threw her out of the house "for bad behavior." And she returns home - very beautiful and, most importantly, fabulously rich. Her appearance causes a stir in the small town lost in time and space. After all, Tieta has more money than all of its residents, and she becomes the main benefactor of the town. But her older sister, burning with envy and dreaming to bring Titus "to light", suits against her a conspiracy ...

Eduardo Coutinho是巴西新浪潮电影运动中的又一位天才导演，虽然他在新浪潮时期只拍摄过两部影片，但却都堪称杰作，这部在剧情上非常复杂新颖的影片是他最好的作品。
In a fictitious country, civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities because he could break world economics. But he manages to escape.
ingenious comedy about the cold war and the powers that be! This movie is a treasure waiting to be found. With a very original screenplay, it presents the life of an average man in Brazil that suddenly turns upside down when a dying mysterious trillionaire from the East puts his name is his testament. The economy of the world is at stake as he puts the money into his bank account, and the then two superpowers (USA and USSR) send agents to go after him, in an atmosphere of funny conspiracies and political sarcasm.

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.

在曼哈顿城东部的一群巴西毒贩与当地的另一帮拉丁毒贩展开一场斗争。他们的战士都是17岁不到的墨西哥孩子，因为他们杀了人不用坐牢。战争很快升级，海洛因德国供货商和他的英国女友，一名前任波多黎各警察，还有一名日本警官也卷入到争斗中。影片涉及种族主义、警察贪污、毒品交易与贩卖，众多的杀戮场面极其残忍血腥。

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.

Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the cities patron saint, in a small town in the interior of Minas Gerais. He is the one who brings passion and crime, vanishing afterwards, leaving a poetic feeling in the air, which is always deadly to the ones who stay. Mrs. Ana de Lara, the proud rich widow, and Missy, still a child, whose beauty and innocence are like the Tiê-Sangue, a red bird, are the travelers victims. There is also Master Juca do Vale, a criminal, whose passion turns him incredibly human, in this story of love, death, forgiveness and resurrection.