Virgínia Valle

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.

Maneco takes his nephews to spend his holidays at his grandfather's place. But the old scientist discovered a way to travel in time and got lost in the year 1926. Maneco and the boys will try to bring him back.

Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.

Glorinha, a middle-class 15 year old girl, always thought her mother Judite had killed herself, and that her father Gilberto has gone crazy as result. Her friend Nair takes her to a high-class bordello, where she wants to work. When uncle Raul, who raised her, discovers her prostitution, he decides to finally tell her all the truth about her parents' story.

After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde.

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