Linha de Passe @ Wolubilis
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Written by BrusselsLife Team -
05 Mar 2009, 00:00
(Updated: 13 Dec 2012, 07:59)
São Paolo, Brazil, the present. Four half-brothers live in the impoverished outskirts of the city with their middle-aged mother, Cleuza, who is once more pregnant by an unknown father.
Dario, who is turning 18, is trying out for a professional football team. Dínis, who has already fathered a child himself, is a motorcycle courier. Dinho, a petrol station attendant, is a member of a Pentecostal church. The youngest brother, Reginaldo, skips school to ride the city buses in search of his father, whom he's heard is a bus driver.
Dario is turned down for football teams, as he is getting too old and hogs the ball. Dínis parties, neglects his child, and, in search of easy money, drifts into crime. Dinho, repressed and unhappy, is wrongly accused of theft and beats up his boss. He takes refuge in the church. Reginaldo gets into trouble at school and haunts the bus garage. Cleuza is afraid that because of her pregnancy she will lose her job cleaning a rich woman's flat. She tries to cope with her sons' difficulties as best she can. Finally, Dario, although he cannot provide the bribe demanded by a scout, gets his big break in a professional match. Dínis, after a botched smash and grab, hijacks a car, but lets the driver go without harming him. Dinho takes part in a mass baptism in a local river. As Reginaldo steals a bus and drives it through the city, Cleuza goes into labour at home alone.
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