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The story of three friends in Rio de Janeiro. When a patient at the hospital where Paulo interns asks him to get in touch with her sons, the three friends are pulled out of their tranquil lives and drawn into a web of violence and police corruption.

December 23rd. A series of random encounters will radically change the lives of various persons. Ten-year-old Gabriel and thirty-year-old Roseli arrive in Rio De Janeiro in search of the boy's father who left them years before. João is an unemployed young lawyer who is deeply in love and desperately seeks a way to improve his life. Pedro is a university researcher who lives with his father and is going thorough a period of drastic changes within his family. Gilda is a nightclub dancer willing to leave the city behind, but who is still held back by the happiness she once let slip through her fingers. All of them are living through borderline situations heightened by the imminent arrival of Christmas. However, it is from these unexpected encounters that they regain some hope as well as the feeling that it is not possible to live without love.

Nick Tosches, a successful American man in the prime of his 60's, is staying in a five-star hotel in Copacabana. Tired of experiencing this wearied world, he finds himself engaged in a personal quest for one last romantic adventure.

Teenager and his Chilean parents live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in exile, after his brother is killed by the military government in Chile. Years later, still haunted by the past, he undergoes a crisis when he learns his cousin had been arrested in Santiago, and quarrels with his family when he decides to know his country and the details of his past.

About the most famous brothel in Brazil during the XX Century.