To the rest of the world, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro are a representation of the Brazilian social disarray. Yet they are also one of the city's the most attractive points of interest.
The young Cocada dreams of becoming a truck driver. Since his father was murdered, he found a surrogate father, Mineiro, a truck driver that supports him and takes time to talk to him.
In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families have lived in palafitas, slums on stilts. A government project is supposed to relocate them to new homes, but it remains on hold.
In an isolated village of Uruguay, a community house that first started as the BELLA VISTA Football Club clubhouse then became a successful transvestite brothel before being turned into a Sunday s