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- Aluízio Li, an aficionado and alienated by martial arts films in the state of Ceara (Brazil) in the 80s, sees your playful and innocent world in check when a retired professional wrestler (Toni Tora Pleura) decides to challenge all the "tough guys" of the city.
- Thomas Mathews, an investigative journalist whose world is turned upside-down when his son disappears, is sent to Brazil to investigate close encounter sightings.
- An every day farther who is struggling to make ends meet in the big city, he resembles twentieth century's most successful bandit leader Lampião. One day he wake up in 1927 where he is mistaken for the real Lampião.
- Failing to obtain any vultures--the only potential food in the severe drought of Northeastern Brazil--Didi and his friends Soró and Tatu', put their hut on a wagon pulled by their burro Salvation and head for the town of Oróz, believing they can find water there. On the way, they find a Scarecrow, whom Didi calls Clowbrush (clown+brush), besieged by vultures reminiscent of the crows in _Wiz, The (1978/I)_. They kill and eat the vultures and take the brainless Scarecrow with them, hoping a doctor at Oróz will put them in. They next stumble upon a warehouse, finding a man in a metal vat of rum, which is his blood, who desires a heart. In the town of Oróz, Sheriff Lion works for Colonel Ferreira, who owns a pond using gigantic frogs to keep people from obtaining water without paying. Lion's girlfriend, Aninha the schoolmaster, thinks he is a coward for not standing up to the Colonel. The Tramps, with Vat and Clowbrush, arrive and promptly rob a bakery. Sheriff Lion puts Soró and Tatu in jail, while to redeem himself, he is ordered to supervise Didi, Vat, and Clowbrush in a search for water, which is their punishment. After disguising themselves as Ferreira's guards, they are nonetheless discovered, so they flee to a desert, where a saint points them to the Wizard of Oróz, who fiendishly supports their mission - The film, while a spoof of a famous story, was also intended to make people aware of the conditions in the Northeast, which Aragão said he could not show in any greater detail, lest the film be terrified by the reality of the plight in that area.
- A young girl is raised as a man by an old cowboy. Her purpose is to kill her parents' murderers and go to the sea.
- A road in the countryside of Ceará. Abandoned cars with open doors. Bodies lying on the ground. Faces and hands shot. Blood. The nightmare of a man who wants to abandon his life as a gunman.
- The impossible love of the trapeze artist Simão and Mariana, and the karmic rescue of Angelina (her mother) that ran over a gypsy's black cat only to attract to herself and her daughter a unprecedented curse that would change destinies.