Alice Carvalho

Adrift and desperately needing money to pay for his ailing adoptive father's care, Ubaldo, a bank clerk who's unable to remember his childhood, receives an inheritance that will change his destiny for good. He goes to Cratará, in the heart of the northwest desert, where he'll become the leader of a pack of ruthless bandits, fulfilling the legacy of his biological father - a mythical cangaceiro.

Marcelo (Wagner Moura) is on the run from mercenary killers after becoming the target of a dictator amid the ruthless, political tumult of 1977 Brazil. With the help of compatriots in the country's growing underground resistance, Marcelo hopes to escape Brazil with his young son.