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- What do you get outta this... - What?

Putting that thing in our faces?

It's to show what your lives really are.

For people to see how is it.

Know who you could show this to?

You could show it to President Collor.

Hey, Bucky!

You talk, say something.

- No, say! - And you, Miss?

Collor's starving the poor people to death!

- I'm feeling the pain in the skin... - And you, Sir?

- There are jobs, no one want them.

If I had one, I would take it.

- I'm talking about... - There are jobs, no one knew.

- Then say something... - It's a decent job like others.

- Look at the man. - Everyone's working here, ain't nobody stealing.

I work here, like everyone else. Everyone works, no one steals.

If folks were stealing in here, nobody'd be working.

- Calm. - Yeah, everybody is here because they need.

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- It's better than minimum wage in here or not? - Ah, here is better.

A thousand times. More than working as a maid,

or working in some places, much better.

- You say you like working here?

- I keep going... If the dump stays here, we keep working, right?

So people won't starve to death. Cuz if it closes, we all starve.

Many floks work here cuz they're lazy!

- To lazy to take a bus and go find a job.

- There are jobs, it's only want to work. - It's...

It's difficult for men... Not for women.

There are lotsa women and men who work here because they're slackers...

...because they prefer easy eating, because...

...here there are potatoes, everything you eat.

Many people eat cuz they want to.

There are a lot of mangrove around, a bunch of men there who catches crab.

Many don't go cuz they don't want.

Well, working here? I'm proud I work here, so I'm not begging at nobody's home.

- Hey... - They are trying this outside.

- My mom raised us all here, thanks to God. My mom has ten children...

...all ten raised with the food from here, the money from here.

- Jesus! She spoke, spoke well.

- It's a lie, because there's no food in here.

- No? Don't you take potato? Don't you take?

- This is sour food.

- Fuck...

- When the supermarket truck brings its rotten food of course we take it.

So... I've been working here since I was seven.

But at least we're working.

At least we're showing that we are workers, and we're working.

We're not loafing or robbing anybody either.

Hey, you know everybody here?

- Yes, I know. - I know. - You know each other from here?

- From beginning to end.

- I know, my son. Know 'em all. Half of 'em was raised with me here in this dump.

Look, start telling their names.

- Their names? - Pedro. Sara. Rosanna...

- What Sarah what? - Din�ia. Eduardo. N�ia.

Sara. K�tia. Jorge. Zez�. M�rcia. M�rcio.

- Deda. Nen�m. - Caneco. Marquinho. Futuca.

- Futuca. - Here... - Pedro Henrique...

- Yes, you have to speak the name. - ...Machado.

- That's Nirinha.

That's Nirinha, Mr. Machado's daughter.

- I'd be ashamed if I was stealing, I don't steal.

- Nirinha!

- This is Vera. - Ah, my sister!

- Who is this? - It's me ...

- And here? - My dad.

- Really? - Yes...

Nirinha, I was told that you're the hardest worker...

...here, that you collect the most pounds weekly, right?

- Yeah.. - How much do you collect a week?

- Ah, I sell outside. - But how many kilos do you collect?

- Four thousand kilos. - Four thousand? A month or a week?

- Every 2 weeks. - You pick up 4 tons every 2 weeks? 4 tons?

- Four, five. - You mean, two thousand kilos a week?

- Yeah, about that... - All by yourself? - By myself.

But that's just you... Nobody eles gets as much, right?

Yes... It's because I work all the time.

I hardly ever stop, sir, I barely stop to eat. So I work all the time.

Each palm is so. The most that I can carry is 60 kilos.

- And this one, how much it weighs? - Ah, about 30 kilos.

- You can really stand that? - I can, I'm used to it.

- For how long have you been working here?

Ah, over 15 years.

I earn more here because...

I used to sell to middlemen. Now I sell direct...

- Got it?

For example, I sell direct to the guy who buys from the middleman here.

I get the same thing as him.

- Only when there is no way that I sell here, but... - It's just you who does that?

- Just me. - Explains.

If paper gets 120 outside, the guy here pay 60.

So I sell for 120, I make 120. I'm not gonna sell for 60 and lose 60 to them.

- And the others have no choice, because the middleman...

- They don't, because a lotta folks here, for example, work all the time to live.

So they need that cash every week. They really need it.

So they gotta sell. In my case, I can wait two, three weeks in a row with my material.

Eighty-five.

- Tell me, is this your sun tent?

- It's to avoid the sun, to not get rain - You made it?

- No, my husband did. - Do you work here alone or with your husband?

- Alone. Me and my son. - Oh yeah? - Yes...

- Is it nice working here in the trash, or not?

- Nici it ain't, mister. But we make our money, right?

Nice it ain't

But there's no other job. We have to get this one.

- The job is hard to find outside. - Where did you work before?

- As a mais. - At someone's home? - Restaurant, someone's home.

- Wich was better, at someone's home or here? - Ah, being a maid! No comparison!

- Why it's better in someone's home?

- Oh, because it is, we work clean, we eat. Here we don't eat lunch, just dinner.

- Dinner only. - Don't you ever eat lunch? - No, just dinner at home.

What's this place called?

- Well, I don't know. What's this place called? It's a garbage dump, right?

- It has no name... - Name... - Ok, thank you.

- Stop looking at, boy, go find your guys. - Don't cry.

In the past we used to take a bath alone, right?

Water crisis at home, we felt thirsty there.

There, that's my bath.

- Do I need to ask permission to come inside, how is it? - No.

Everybody comes right in, sleep.

- When you're not working, do you rest here? - Yeah. Then I come here.

- Do you get any sleep or not? - No, I can't sleep dirty.

- Do you have kids? - Yes, I have 2 daughters. - 2 daughters?

One is 10 years old and the other is 4.

- And I raised one, who is 9 years old.

- And how do you do, who do they stay with while you work?

With my brother-in-law's wife, who lives with us.

We moved here from Rio, almost 9 months ago.

- Yeah, we do what we can. - It's easier to talk there, right?

- It is more comfortable than here right?

- Yeah, it's a messa there, everybody screaming, joking.

You saw that kid go by there? Teasing me?

They're rascals... But we're all friends.

Well... I compare this to when we worked in Paran� State.

We rode those trucks to cut cane, you know?

Those trucks owned by those rich firms, those rich farmers.

They'd sent the trucks to pick up us workers.

Then everybody would take that truck, and get there in that field of sugarcane.

Then everyone knew everyone else. At quitting time...

...everyone knew everyone else.

At working time, at lunch time, it was a party.

Weekends were sad cuz we had nobody to talk to, to...

...have fun with. It's the same here in the trash.

When I'm in the trash, I'm totally different than at home.

There I shout, I talk, I joke with one, joke with another,

they throw things on me, I throw things on them.

Here, it's just me and my daughters. My husband's always working.

- He gets home tired. - There, mister, the chicken in the basket... Right there.

- There mister, the chicken in the basket.

- It's true. Do you think it's a lie? - Where's the chicken? - Over there.

It's for the pig.

Shame would be if I could not bear the weight. I can.

Say Nunes.

We need that dump, cuz it has swill, it has clothes.

We find some good clothes, some good shoes.

For example, I give people clothes.

I pick up lotsa good clothes there, good stuff.

What might not do for the rich, can do for the poor.

And for us it's useful. There are many useful things there.

How did you meet her, began dating her, how was it?

We studied together as kids.

We worked the fields together. It was all day long...

...in the countryside, singing those backcountry songs.

All day long, and...

And then began to rise that puppy love, and here we are, until today. Right?

And did you marry young or not?

No, we're not married, we live together here.

- Have you been collecting garbage long? - No, it'll be 4 months, right?

Next day 4 it'll be 4 months.

So you bring in the trash with the car and meet her inside?

Yes, I come, then she's inside. And I...

I bring up some things for her.

It's to help out, too, we gotta do like that....

But she's gonna stay there. Helping us out, right?

Getting swill for the pigs.

Also, there's one piggy about to litter.

And... We keep living life so, as we can.

This is the one I used to get swill for the lady, as I told you the first time.

That I used to get swill, so she gave me this sow.

This is the one she gave me the first time, right?

- Do you eat them? - No, I couldn't eat my critters. I'm too fond of them.

I want all you want to give me All you can.

I want to give you all a man Gives to a woman.

And beyond all this affection That you give to me,

My imagination always want more.

You are the sweetest candy My full breakfast,

The favorite beverage, The favorite food.

I eat and drink the finest Whenever I desire:

Morning, noon or nighttime, I do not make diet.

This love that feeds My fantasy,

It's my dream, my party, It's my ecstasy.

The tastiest food, the perfume, the drink Everything in my life.

Every man who knows what he wants Knows how to give and receive from the woman.

All the best and make of this love What he eats, what he drinks,

What he gives and receives.

But the man who knows what he wants And falls in love with a woman

He does that love his whole life:

The food, the beverage His everything nice.

Every man who knows what he wants Knows how to give and receive from the woman.

All the best and make of this love

What he eats, what he drinks, What he gives and receives.

But the man who knows what he wants And falls in love with a woman

C'mon, get out there, damn. Come on.

Opaaa!

Go away!

Damn it, woman, that way it is not possible...

You can film me. You can stop.

Be my guest.

- I have no shame. - Thing, look over there. - For you too.

Miss Teresa, will have your back filmed, Miss Teresa?

- What are you doing there? - Taking my daily bread.

- Taking your daily bread? And what are you taking there? - Copper.

- Are you his mother? - I'm the mother of creation.

- Mother of creation?

My husband is a fisherman. Some days he goes fishing, and catches some...

And some day he goes and doesn't catch.

Then we gotta make do here. Ain't stealing or killing, right?

It's working. Yeah...

- We work to sell stuff. - What's your name?

My name's C�cera.

She's Teresa and he's Mois�s.

And why is Teresa embarassed?

I don't know. Cuz she doesn't like, cuz it's said you're gonna show her on TV.

- I don't care, honey. - What?

I don't mind, I don't care if I'm on TV, in the paper.

Me? I don't care, honey.

I don't give a damn, I'm not stealing.

Ain't I right?

I ain't stealing, let this pretty face appear on television.

God gives me health...

It's for me to work, right?

Is it tiring working here?

Very tiring. Some days the night comes, and we can't even sleep.

Really?

Because of sore hips, sore kidneys.

- I worked a lot as a maid. - Really?

I worked a lot.

I don't like being bossed.

I like to be my own boss. I'm leaving now.

I'm going home, clean up, change clothes, go to church.

Yeah, one day it gets better. God have mercy, right?

- Look at there. - Look what?

Look here, my shack is this one, saw?

My god. How's this picture gonna come out?

It will burn your machine, and you all, huh?

This here's my daughter, and this one is her boyfriend.

Yes...

And my husband went out.

How long have you worked there?

Oh, not very long. Not very long ago.

I worked there once before, but then I left.

I went to catch shellfish, crabs, things like that.

Yes... Then I came back again cuz the situation got bad, right?

And now I'm back again.

You mean that when you're not in the garbage you catch shellfish?

Right... Shellfish, crab, yes, near here.

Water up to here, to catch the shellfish.

- Oh yeah? - Sometimes that is where the water is, yeah.

Not anymore.

- Do you prefer to catch shellfish, or work there? - Oh...

Anything suits me fine.

Where are you from?

- Pernambuco state. - When did you come to Rio?

Oh, there are... Some 18 years.

Why did you come?

Oh, I came... I met her father, right?

I came with her father.

Cuz he came here before to find work, got a room and then I came. And here I am.

We split and I live with this guy.

I've been living with this one for 9 years.

With Bozo, about 9 years.

- What's his name? - Antonio.

- And he's a fisherman? - Yeah. Fisherman.

- Do you wanna say something else? - No, no... I got nothing to say.

- Don't? But you are a good talker, you speak well. -Yes...

No, I just want one day... Not for me, I got nothing else to get.

But I want God... What I pray to God is to giver her a...

...chance later so she can do whatever she wants, right?

- What do you want to be? - Singer.

- Want to be a singer? - I do.

- What kind of music do you like singing? - Country music. - Yes?

I never thought you Wanted from me

Just one night of pleasure Just a little playtime...

Everything you said to me Entered my heart

Madness full of seduction Changed my life...

I can't forget the emotion That I felt for you

For all that cannot be I want you...

I've got no time For loneliness

The moment you want me I go!

Kiss for kiss

Dream for dream

Tenderness for love

Passion for passion...

Miss Teresa.

Get a load of Miss Teresa's face.

Mother! Good grief, look at that.

You got nothing better to do, right?

Look at me there, look. And old woman.

Where is Miss Tereza?

She got nice. Where's Miss Teresa, with her face all hidden?

Take, Miss Teresa.

Is it a bad photo, Miss Teresa?

No, she got sick yesterday.

- How come? - She got sick.

- Really? What happened, Miss Teresa? - Weakness.

Weakness?

- For how long have you been here? - Me? Over 4 years.

What do you think? It's good, bad, how is it?

It's good and bad. The way we live isn't good...

...but at least the children were all raised here.

Thanks God they're healthy.

Do they help you there, or not?

No, I don't take them anymore. Now, if I go, they stay behind.

Cuz it's very dangerous, with the issue infected needles.

- Did you get hurt now? - I did.

- When was it, yesterday? - The day before yesterday.

- Are you treated? - Yes, it's good now.

- You hurt your foot? - Right here. It's still open.

Look, it's leaking.

- On a needle, the needle of the injection? - Yes...

- What is it, the hospital waste? - Yes, hospital waste.

Is it? Ever find something else from the hospital here?

Yes, a lot of stuff.

Even newborns.

Sometimes the truck even brings newborns, but...

Nobody believes, nobody cares, right? Just when we open the bags, we find them.

And sometimes the cops come and take them away.

- Cabecinha... - Where's mine?

- Maria Gasolina... - Why "Gasoline"?

- I wanna se my photo.

- Bearded Claus. - Santa Claus, there.

- Are you going to see? - Yes, it is here.

Move overfor they to film me, shit. Don't you know it?

Let me give a picture to you.

Where are the pictures?

- My picture? - Yes.

- Did this one come out?

- It's a kind of photocopy, picture tests, that the video camera does.

- Oh, thank you... - Yeah?

- What's your name? - Enock Pereira Santos.

Have you worked here long?

I already have some 4 years here, in this garbage.

I live right down there in the street. Right there in the balance.

- On the side of the balance? - I live to the left of the balance, over there.

Mr. Enock, tell me, how is the work here?

The work here is just what you see. I remember for a lifetime.

Picking up trash, getting food for your critters.

But this is dangerous.

Do folks get sick here?

Oh, some do. But after they get used to it, nothing happens.

Some folks, if they don't smell this trash, get sick at home cuz...

- They miss it? - They miss it.

They gotta come, even if just for a Sunday visit. But they gotta come here.

Did you have a bad impression at the first time you came here?

No, I had no bad impression, cuz this is old, we live it all the time.

This impression... Look, I've collected trash all over Brazil.

If I had time I could give you a good interview.

- But tell me, in what professions have you worked? - "Profession"?

It's curiosity, because profession we had to score.

All over Brazil I lived off trash, and labor, and farming, and everything.

I tell you, sir... I tell you, from Acre...

Down to the end of Porto Alegre.

I got tired of cutting syringe. I've worked with...

...rubber, in construction in Amapa, Macapa, of air base.

I harvested a lotta crops in S�o Paulo, too.

In Paran� I did the reopening of...

The coffee I drink now, I planted it.

- 500 bucks the snake. - I turned 70 on February 12.

How do you keep fit?

I dunno. Either I got good health, or it's a yarn. I feel ok...

- Do you have a family? - I live with a lady, but I'm not married.

I've lived with her for 8 to 9 years. She's from Para�ba.

- Are you from Para�ba? - No, I'm from Bahia.

Hey Miss Lucy, come to talk to the man here, come.

- We will, you can go there. - Let me just add her for you there.

- She's from Para�ba. Miss Lucia, see? - Pleased to meet you Miss Lucia.

- Thanks. I'm from Jo�o Pessoa. - You are?

- Do not yell at her... - Where are the chairs?

- And Mr. Enock, what's he like? - Hi? - Mr. Enock, what's he like?

- Stop it, this is not something you ask. - He?

Is it good to live with him? How is it?

Is he easy-going? How is he?

He is easy-going, yes. Just picking up trash...

- Scrounging for food. - Yes? - Yes...

- What for? - For the critters. - For the critters?

- But he goes cuz he wants to? - Huh?

No. He needs to go. So he goes.

Goes to find cans...

...scrap iron...

- Aluminium, to sell. - Is it? - To earn a little cash.

And what do you think about it?

I think it's good, right?

We ain't got any other source of income.

- But you don't go, right? - Not me! - Why? - Because I won't.

- Why not? Tell me why. - Cuz I'm ashamed to go.

Is he wise or not?

If he's wise? He's, because he's not crazy.

Huh? Huh, Mr. Enock?

- Listen up, Whiskers. The sir is talking. - You can talk.

- How is it? You call him Whiskers? - I call! Everyone here does.

Whiskers? Here no one calls me by my name.

- Just Joe Whiskers... Their notion. - Is it?

- Now, swing. - There was a person in the trash calling you Santa Claus.

- Huh! - Do you get angry or not?

It's part of life, or else it's one more proof, right?

I'm their father, see... Of their nature.

- Is the trash part of life too? - It's part of life.

The end...

of a job is trash.

For that's the end. And there it begins.

What do you mean by the end of the service?

End of the job means cleaning the house, throwing out what is despised.

It finishes there, but still goes on. And from there, it goes even farther.

Provides a lot. There's much to be found in the trash.

Here I keep a small closet, a small stove, a gas tank.

A sofa, where Marquinhos sleeps.

Mr. Enock, what's that poster on the wall?

It's from the trash, it's a thing from the trash.

And there's more, we bring flowers, all sort of things.

I found this clock in the trash.

Stopped.

And broken here.

We glued it and put in...

- A battery. - And put in a battery, then we...

...set it by that radio.

- It keeps perfect time, right?

- What's your religion? - I'm a naturalist.

- What does it mean? - I believe in nature?

- I believe a lot in nature. - Not in God?

It's the same thing.

Same thing.

If we're for nature, we must follow God.

- Do you come here everyday? - No...

...I go months without coming.

Sometimes, I come here for a little distraction, watch the people, right?

It's hard to come here.

- This place is great. - There are no fights? - No.

There are a lot of fighting with the vultures.

- What? - Just with the vultures there's fighting.

- For how long have you worked here? - Two days.

My wife's been working here longer than me.

- For how long? - Six months.

And why have you come just now?

I came just now cuz I left my job, I'm unemployed.

And it's tough for me to find another, so...

My condition was to come here.

- What did you do before? - Mechanic.

What do you collect? Cans? What kind of stuff?

Cans, cardboards, plastic.

Food, if it appears, we collect it too.

There are foods that are good for the pigs,

others there are still good to eat, how is it?

Well, we find some food, for example, a sack of...

rice, of pasta, those things. It helps, right?

- Right.

- So, what did you get today? What? - Potatoes, chayote, carrots...

...apples.

Some folks hide their faces,

they don't want to be filmed.

It's ok for you, right?

I fear nothing.

Tell me why.

I'm not afraid cuz of this: I think that I'm a brazilian, I'm human, so I'm free.

I have the right to say what I want and what I think.

No, pretend that you are cleaning zucchini.

Clean it right up!

Clean the zucchini there. Clean the zucchini already arranged.

I think that he liked me.

Oh, my God.

I think that he liked me.

Oh, my God.

Can we start? Don't worry, it's just if you have been working here long.

- But I have nothing to say. - Have you been working here long?

- About 30 years.

- Right here? - Yes, I was born in here, in the dump.

Right there, look.

In the middle of a pile of cardboard. There.

They dumped me right here.

Today I'm calm.

- I'm under control. - Ih! There he goes. - I'm calm, I drank some sugar water.

I'm under control.

We don't pick those things in the garbage to eat.

You people write in your newspapers, so who sees thinks that we eat it, right?

But we don't.

That can't... That can't happen.

Her mom keeps pigs, her father keeps pigs, everyone here keeps pigs.

What we take here, sometimes we collect bread, or some rest of food.

It's for the pigs.

I'm disgusted with this, fliming his bag of vegetables...

...is disgusting. People see and think...

"That's what they eat, that's what they live on". But it's not.

My finger, my finger's burning.

- Your son? - Yes.

- What's his name? - What? - What's his name?

F�bio.

There's he and six more at home.

This one is Fabiana, she's 12 year old.

This is F�bio. He's 10.

This one is Fl�vio. He's 8.

That one is Vane... Is Fl�via. She's 5 years old.

This one is Vagner. He's 4.

This is Vanessa. She's 2.

This one is Vanderson. He's 1.

Who demands more work?

- The work is the same. - Yes? - The work is the same.

That one is my mother.

- Oh, your mother? - That one is my mother.

- How old is she? - She lives at my home. - Oh, yes.

- How are you, madam? - Thanks God, everything is fine here on this boat.

- Do you take care of your grandchildren? - No.

- Why not? - I had 12, nobody took care of my children, I don't take care of any.

Is it rough having 7 kids?

- It's easy. - Is it easy? - It's.

- Now, do you want more or not? - I do.

- How many? - Up to 12!

Do you agree, Jurema?

- Until 12? - Yeah. - It's. - Fl�vio.

- Until 12, you agree? - Whatever God sends, I want.

I don't do abortions.

- And if God sends 18? - I raise them.

- I had 12, boy! - With the dump, we can raise them. - I had 12.

Yes, but if this reach 18? It cannot be...

- It can... If Jesus give me strength and courage, I... - It can.

- I never aborted any. - Do you know what you cannot do?

Kill, abort, give to others.

- An abortion, that cannot be. - Allright...

Just look: what a sweetie-pie, what a cutie!

To get food, we have to count one by one.

Isn't it hard to support them?

- No? - God helps.

God gives strength, courage and health. And we do our part, right?

You cannot stop nor beg in from neighbours.

God giving health, we go for it.

I started working in the dump...

...13 years ago.

When my husband died.

Because he wouldn't let us go there, right? He was very...

Systematic, he did not let us work there.

- But Jurema start there young? - Yes, she was small.

How did you meet your husband, how was it?

Well, Antonio? How was it?

- Right in the trash. - But he didn't work there.

- He worked, girl. - My mom worked there.

So I'd pick her up sometimes. That's how I met Jurema.

- But you started dating right there, or not? - No...

- Oh, I'd go to her house. - But you flirted there?

We flirted. Flirted there, and talked to her outside.

- Inside, not. - Oh yeah? - Then...

One day I came to her house for a coffee.

I'm still here drinking this coffee.

It's a simple love story. Wanna hear it?

- Yes... You met him. - Okay. We met in the trash.

I used to go home alone at night, right?

He offered me his company, so I wouldn't go alone at night.

Then he invited himself for a cup of coffee.

From coffee, we ended up in bed.

- Really, this way? - It was.

- It was fast. Slam, bam. - It was quick, real quick?

Yes. It was the famine with the desire to eat.

You were angry, huh?

- Just working, working, working, not knowing what was that.

Then when it came, it's been going on ever since.

- I mean, so it was really fast. - It was fast, it was good.

- It was good... - Yes.

- It was great. - An it's still great?

- It's still good, thanks God. - Do you fight a lot, or not?

- Oh, we fight. - Fight?

- We fight by day and make up by night. - Ahhhh!

The fruit of fights: one kid after the other.

- It's been a year since we fought.

- A year without fighting? - A year without fighting. I miss it. No belly.

I swear. Each fight is also a reason for making union.

We stopped fighting, stopped having babies.

Then you have to fight more to have more children, right?

More children, more love.

- More excitement.

What do you think about the work in the trash?

That garbage tides us over, you know?

That garbage is our right arm.

And all my kids are raised on trash money.

When he gets his service. Because he's out of work now, right?

When he is working, he helps me.

I mean, he too. When he's not, we both go there, and the boy.

No way can I talk bad about the trash.

Why did you get so mad at him that day?

Because there's a lotta easy women. I do not like bidding.

There are many easy women.

We're there to work, not mess around.

If you don't wanna talk, do like me.

Do not try to convince him because I already started it.

I want't willing to talk to anyone, so I didn't.

There's no point just to say foolishness.

That's why when you came my way, I'd go away.

I sitted in my corner. You'd come back, I'd go away again.

- That day you said people might think you eat that. - No, there...

...many things that we get there, we can use.

Got it? We can use.

The Sendas truck. I mean, the supermarket truck that brings vegetables.

There's a fruit, vegetables, a lot of good things.

- Macaroni sometimes, right? - Macaroni...

Got it? There's good meat.

Good chicken. We can use it.

The garbage trucks only bring junk we can sell...

but the Sendas truck has things that we can eat.

But we don't need to tell God and everybody that we live from that.

Got it?

"I'm gonna tell him about this cuz he's gonna help."

Nobody's gonna help nobody.

At first, many people didn't want us filming,

they hid their face. But later they liked it.

They got used to it. Cuz folks are ashamed to be on TV.

In the trash, I'm ashamed. Filthy dirty the way we work.

Everybody's seeing. Nobody knows us outside. But who lives here knows.

- Aren't you working as a garbage truck driver today? - No, I got laid off.

- Really? When? - 8 days ago.

- Why? - I don't know. I can't even explain.

Too many people.

- So now you're working here. - Yes.

- You're forced to make do here. - We gotta keep linving from here, right?

That's crazy, no?

- I'll speak to you later, ok? - Ok.

- Tell me now, when were you fired? - Just 8 days ago.

But I really didn't wanna stay there anymore, right?

So now that you're unemployed, you gonne stay here, right?

For now I'm gonna stay here. When I get my severance pay, I'll see.

- I can't stop working. - You never worked here in the trash before?

No, I worked here before. I caught crabs too.

I can do many things. I can work with an axe, a plow, I'll do anyhting.

And for you there is not much difference, here or elsewhere?

Anywhere is fine for me, any job is a job.

I ain't fussy. I'm not the kind of person that has many restrictions to choose a job.

If i take a job and they tell me to clear a ditch, I 'll. Anything.

But things are poor here. Gotta find something else.

You can't live off spare change.

It doesn't work.

No way.

The trucks get here picked over.

It's almost not worth it.

Come on, man!

Is that the song you sang before?

Yes.

Who's singing?

Jos� Augusto.

I can't forget the emotion That I felt for you

- Sing along, sing along.

For all that cannot be I want you...

I've got no time For loneliness

The moment you want me I go!

Kiss for kiss, Dream for dream

Tenderness for love, Passion for passion...

Kiss for kiss, Dream for dream

Tenderness for love, Passion for passion...

Kiss for kiss, Dream for dream

Jos� Augusto. From Chico Roque and Carlos Colla, singing "Dream for dream".

FILMED AT THE ITAOCA DUMP IN S�O GON�ALO, 40 KM...

..FROM RIO DE JANEIRO. HUNDREDS OF SIMILAR...

...DUMPS ARE LOCATED AROUND BRAZIL, PROVIDING...

...WORK FOR TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SCAVENGERS.

DIRECTED BY EDUARDO COUTINHO.