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A fantasy/mystery about the disappearance of a lighthouse owner and his daughter.

Three short stories adapted from Nelson Rodrigues works and all revolving around infidelity, some with humored moments and others with more tragic results. "Traição" ("Betrayal") presents the story of a man who falls in love with a married woman; a segment where a young girl captures the attention of her sister's fiancee; and a third one about an unfaithful wife who is taken hostage by her husband after he finds out she's cheating him with his best friend.

One day Michael, a U.S. journalist who works for a Brazilian newspaper, is put in charge of interviewing Father Louis Stephen, a famed Catholic missionary who helps the needy in the jungles of Brazil. He has one problem: the Father rarely gives interviews. However, Michael decides that he will be the first to interview the Father personally, and he journeys to the center of Brazil in search of the priest. Michael will soon know how hard it can be to get an interview, and that the Father's apparent media-shyness has deeper implications than he thought..

The history of the afoxé group Filhos de Gandhy, which in 1999 completed 50 years. The group has paraded since 1949 on the streets of Salvador, during Carnival, having as its flag the pacifist ideals of the Indian political leader Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), the Mahatma (the great soul). In fact, when it emerged, the bloc acted as a platform, a way of circumventing the then ban of the Brazilian Communist Party, provided in 1948.