Sandra Corveloni

After failing to be admitted into the renowned Sao Paulo Symphonic Orchestra, talented violinist Laerte is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school in Heliopolis, the biggest favela of Brazil. His path is full of difficulties but the transforming power of music and the friendship arising between the professor and his students opens the doors into a new world.

Forced to marry a slave trader and live on his decaying farmhouse in the Brazilian mountains, young Beatriz faces physical and emotional unrest.