SÃO PAULO with its many millions of inhabitants. They come to town for sheer survival. Four youngsters with differing perspectives about life and happiness have come to the city with great expectations: Will the ‘Amerian dream’ come true for them in this metropolis?

Carlos Oscar Reichenbach Filho, born 1945, studied at the Escola Superior de Cinema Sao Luiz in São Paulo, Brazil. Since 1968 he is working in the Brazilian film industry as a producer, photographer, director, script writer, actor and musician. He was a film critic for several newspapers and magazines and is publisher of the film magazine ‘Cinegrafia’. He is a regular guest of the Rotterdam Film Festival from its beginning.