Daniel Botelho

Virginia’s death during her 17th birthday shakes up a luxurious building complex. For most residents, it’s a passing tragedy. For her mother and her friends, it is the beginning of a transformation: the crack in their drywall cocoon.

What's it like to shoot a series that takes place in Rio de Janeiro during the summer and São Paulo during the winter? What were some of the challenges related to producing a series during a pandemic? Author and screenwriter Luly Trigo takes us behind the scenes in this "live" special.

1995, São Paulo. Following the deployment of the Plano Real, Liz, 13, is sent to Ireland by her newly middle class parents on an exchange programme. From her point of view the trip is a complete failure. Liz comes back to Brazil distressed and obsessive. In the following years she develops an alimentary disorder which limits her life in all areas. How to overcome this tough reality?

Pierre is seventeen and in the middle of puberty. He plays in a band, has sex at parties and secretly tries on women’s clothing and lipstick in front of a mirror. Ever since his father’s death, his mother Aracy has looked after him and his younger sister Jacqueline, spoiling them both. But when he discovers that she stole him from a hospital when he was a new born baby, Pierre’s life changes dramatically. In her new film, director Anna Muylaert explores the mother-child relationship through the eyes of a rebellious son whose whole world unravels overnight.

A shy student suddenly becomes the center of attention when she wins a huge birthday party that she never asked for.

Sobre Girassóis has as its only filming set a condominium in São Paulo, whose main plot is the mourning and transformation derived from the unexpected death of a teenager from the residential complex. Virginia celebrates her 17th birthday in the penthouse where she lives with her parents and the drama unfolds in small narratives that expose the points of view of friends, Virginia's mother and the birthday girl.

Carol and her friends prepare for a new year of going to school, to the beach, and having fun in their beloved Rio de Janeiro... but their friendship will be put to the test. Carol will deal with her mother's marriage, her stepfather being her teacher, her insufferable half-brother, and her friends' personal problems. But they will stick together... or not.