Cacá Carvalho

In Pacaembu, one of the most aristocratic neighborhoods in São Paulo, an empty house is used as a shelter for a homeless mother and her daughter. As time goes by, two other people having the same social status come to live there too, establishing a conflict. They're not beggars, but icons of an impoverished Brazilian middle class. (imdb)

Based freely on the Brazilian novel Macunaíma. Two Macunaímas leave their constellation in the sky and arrive in Brazil in the 80's in search of their creator, Mário de Andrade.

The Brazilian back lands. Quaderna, an old clown and bard, narrates, from his cart in the middle of the street, the History of his Family, a bloody saga of Kings, Bandits, Mystics and Backlands Poets. Among his tragic-comic memories is the arrival of the Judge, a powerful Inquisitor from the coast, who summons him for an inquiry in which he is the suspect in the murder of his Goodfather and accused of taking part in a popular revolution. (imdb)