Elvira Helena

In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her money to gamble. One day he dies. Flor misses the goods of the marriage so she marries again with a very correct gentleman – the owner of the drugstore (Teodoro). Now she’s very happy with her man, but misses the erotic moments with her previous husband. Then the ghost of Vadhino comes to earth to chase her.

Marina, an upper-class girl, is dating a man in a bar located in a dangerous neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Zeca is a black man who is making a grafitti nearby. Three mysoginous and racist policemen go there to make what police is not supposed to do.

While young Sofia improvises rhymes with her friends in the community where she lives, her mother, Marli, organizes the evacuation of the upper-middle class apartment where she worked for most of her life as a caregiver. Old dreams and new plans appear on the horizon on this last day of work.

Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.