In the early 1980s, during the filming of this movie, Lucélia Santos received long, late-night phone calls from Nelson Rodrigues. In one of them, the author wanted to know what she had felt during the anthological scene in which a young woman from a rooted middle-class family was gang raped by five black men.
In another one of these phone calls, Rodrigues asked Santos if she was still married, saying his actresses always separated after making his films and plays, due to the realism and sensuality of the sex scenes.
Claudia Ohana doesn't have a good memory of her participation in this film. "I learned what I don't want to do," she said.
Final film of Henriette Morineau.