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- Good morning. - Good morning.

That's it, say it to me

Good morning, flower of the day.

- Oh stop it with that, Paulo. - My flower, say it, Good morni-"

Good morning, flower of the day. There you go, I said it. No.

It has to be slow, soft. What do you mean, slow? Slowly...

You're messing up my day. Paulo, stop that.

Slowly.

Paulo, I'm being serious, I'm being serious, stop that.

I'm going to get annoyed with you.

Well all right, so, say it nice and slowly: Good morning flower of the day," and-

Good morning flower of the day. Now, stop that. - No

Turn that thing off and go find something to do, ok?

With a smile, it can't be like that.

Oh, good morning flower of the day, Paulinho's birthday!

You are so annoying, stop that.

Good morning flower of the day, Paulinho's birthday!

You are the most annoying, disagreeable thing.

It's like you have two kids in the house.

You are the most...

Go get Paulinho, it's his big day today.

- He's getting so big, so big and so smart. - So beautiful

And he really admires his father, you hear?

I look at him and I see you, did you know that?

No, he looks so much like you.

I look at him and see you.

Your walk, your way of speaking...

Paulo and Paulinho.

Such a gift, isn't it?

It is.

So good...

The happiness of life.

And Mr. Alipio, wake up Mr. Alipio.

We have to give Mr. Alipio a stronger drink!

Alessandra...

Wake up Mr. Alipio there so that we can...

Alessandra, fix him up for the camera, hold him up for me.

Mr. Alipio doesn't want to wake up!

We need to give Mr. Alipio a stronger drink.

WAKE UP, MR. ALIPIO!

And you, sweetheart, how are you? I'm good. Have some soda.

- Have you been selling a lot lately? - A lot. This crisis is great!

I'm going to put a hat on you! Put it on, put on my little hat.

And you guys, my darlings, and you?

Margarida! Margarida, look at the camera, come on, look over here.

Oh, Paulinho, Paulinho!

Look Paulinho.

I'm going to get a little soda for him, but I'm going

to bring a greater quantity to see if he wakes up.

I want to see if he's going to spill it. Hold on there.

He woke up!

He woke up! He woke up!

I'm going to take a picture, let me just take a picture here, he's so cute.

Hold on, let me put on a hat.

Paulinho, what do you think this is?

What is it?

Well, Paulinho, I think it's a ball.

- I think it's a ball. - Could it really be a ball, Paulinho?

Could it be a ball for you to play ball? Is it a ball?

Let's open it?

Let's open it? Let's open it to see what it is!

One... two... three... let's open it!

Look, how cool!

- How beautiful! - I want one too!

A bicycle! It's Paulinho's bicycle!

- Do you like it? - Do you like it, son?

Wow, how beautiful.

Come over here, Paulo, come over here, so I can take a photo of you.

Come over here Paulinho, to take a picture of the family.

Hold the camera here, hold the camera.

- So I can take a picture here with Paulinho - Here, take it

Come on, come one!

Come on, let's organize here

Put him right here so we can take a picture

- Go, go Paulinho! - That's it, let's take a picture

Ok, ok, now! Ok, now!

Alright! This beer is nice and cold, you hear?

That's the way I like it.

I'm so jealous! I want to know how to open a beer like that.

Adolfo used to open beer with his teeth.

Jesus! I'm not brave enough to do it with my teeth.

Don't fill up my glass, hun, I'm not used to drinking.

Ha, tell another, Cidão.

Dummy! The way you talk, Margarida is going to think that I'm a drunk.

Well aren't you?

Don't mind Marcos, Cida. Don't mind him, he woke up this way today, all hilarious.

Get up folks, get up, I want to make a toast.

A toast to life.

Even though it's complicated and full of craziness, it offers us

the most beautiful meetings, and unbelievable re-meetings.

- Health! - To life!

Think about it! A teenager, son of a repressive dad and an overprotective mom

parachuting into the capital to go to college.

There was no way it would go well, right?

It was six months of pure hell-raising.

Think of a slutty person. That was me!

I tried everything that I could do and that I couldn't do.

I tried everything and a little bit more.

And then one fine day I went to a bar,

and there was Adolfo.

Girl, Adolfo was such a charming older guy, easy to talk to, intelligent.

Think of a perfect man. That was Adolfo!

He wasn't rich. Really, he never was.

He had money but he spent it all on partying, gifts, trips, that sort of thing.

He never held on to one cent.

If there's one thing you can't say about Adolfo,

it's that he was stingy. He wasn't, you hear?

I went crazy for that man. Actually, I fell totally in love with him.

One week later, I was living with him, making plans.

It was crazy.

The craziest thing of my whole life.

And then after twenty years, the bastard left me all alone.

Now I just miss him.

I just miss him.

C'est la vie!

I'm gonna get another beer.

Get it from the back, those ones are colder.

Ok.

And I thought they were father and son!

Jeez Cida, only you!

Where are you going, darlin'?

I'm going to the toilet.

You're talking all fancy, eh Cidão?

TOILET

Ah, Marcos, up yours!

Look at that!

Didn't your mom teach you manners?

Keep it to yourself,

and no one will mess with you.

Cida is such a trip.

Hey kids,

come eat this meat while it's hot.

Let's go.

When he was a kid, he was the first to get to the party and the last to leave,

under the table, everyone looking for him,

he would give a little smile...

Violeta my love, are you sad?

Look what auntie brought you,

so you can cheer up.

And you,

are you going to look for Paulo?

Ah, I don't know, I don't know.

A lot of things must have changed in these last few years, I dunno.

Maybe he's married,

with a kid.

It's not fair for me to just appear out of nowhere

and screw up his life again.

What's that face, Violeta?

Nothing, jeez.

Girl, think of a cold beer.

Hey, it's frosty.

Put it in here,

you can mix it with the warm.

Thank you

Ah ah ah,

if we're going to speak English, lets speak it right.

The th-with your tongue against your teeth.

Go to hell!

Look at that, woman!

That deserves a kiss

What happened, Cosme?

Are you crazy?

What's so funny?

Cida fell on her butt!

Come over here, Cidão.

Are you ok, darlin'?

It was nothing, just a little fall.

I'm fine.

You're tipsy, huh Cidão?

No, none of that.

I'm just cheerful.

Don't mind Marcos, Cida!

Eh, I'm already used to it.

I'm the queen of clowns anyway.

Ah Cida, tell that story about the watch.

Look at Daddy, come on.

Paulinho, look over here, son.

Look over here.

That's it!

Put up the number five Paulinho, the number five

for five years.

5 years of Paulinho!

I got all ready,

put on makeup, put on perfume,

and I went down to Rio Vermelho to get acarajé.

Girls, I screwed up

and secretly took this beautiful watch that belonged to my aunt.

It looked like one of those gold ones, you know?

Those ones that have those clasps, you know? That open and close...

Like this one?

Exactly!

Just like that!

So I put on my aunt's watch and went down to the bus stop.

You went by bus?

I did!

In those days I did have a car.

I was a girl, I hadn't even gotten married yet.

Still a little lady, eh Cidão?

Well, there I went,

all beautiful, divine, shapely, and sexy

with my aunt's watch

down to Rio Vermelho.

I went down to the bus stop,

the bus passed, stopped, I got on,

everything fine, I sat down, everything beautiful.

At one of the stops, a really weird guy got on.

I stayed cool, but I kept my eye on him...

Suddenly, I put my hand on my wrist

and I don't feel anything.

My heart stopped.

So I thought:

That wretched son of a bitch

stole my aunt's watch!

I needed to do something, right?

Because if I didn't I was screwed!

So what did I do?

I took my bag and, discretely,

I took out a hair brush.

I put the handle up to his belly,

I didn't even look at the guy's face, you hear?

And I said

You lost, playboy,"

You lost, put the watch in the bag.

And he was like

but...but...

and I insisted no buts, bitch!"

Put the watch in the bag!

So when he put it in I stayed quiet as a pig in a blanket.

At the first stop, I got off in a hurry.

My heart was like BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM.

I didn't even want acarajé anymore!

And then,

I feel something sliding down my arm.

What happened?

The clasp opened by itself

and the watch slid up my arm, and I didn't feel it!

Oh my god!

Only Cidão, really!

Good god! And what did you do, lady?

I was lucky that there was a police car right there.

I went running up to the guard and yelled Hey guard!"

Guard, for the love of god, Guard, stop that bus!

So the guard came up to me, like jeez, what happened?

I said I stole the guy's watch!

And so, lady, and so?

And so, so embarrassing,

I had to give it back.

I've screwed up a lot,

but I recognize this one.

This takes the cake.

When I say that this lady is dangerous,

no one believes me.

I love that story.

Cida is great.

Good evening.

Margarida, fast, the battery is dying!

No, there's no time, the battery is dying.

Paulinho, look over here at daddy.

Margarida, the battery is going to die!

But we're going to end up not filming it.

Go ahead, Alessandra, hurry it up!

Guys, the battery is going to die.

Let's go!

Paulinho, look at Daddy over here.

- One... - Smile, son!

two... three!

Let's wake up kiddos.

Let's go, open your eyes. It's time, let's go!

- Just five more minutes - Now, ok?

Violeta, my flower!

Hey!

Good morning, Cida.

Good morning.

Good morning, Violeta.

Jeez, Adolfo,

at this hour? Did you fall out of bed?

It's Felipe!

He's started to wake me up every single day at five in the morning.

When I tell you that you are too lenient with that dog,

this is what happens.

But anyway, how was your trip to far away lands?

Ah, Paris!

La ville d'amour!

Have been to Paris, Violeta?

Oh Adolfo, only you.

You've been everywhere in the world, haven't you?

Travel is the most enchanting thing there is, Violeta.

It's not for nothing that I worked with travel my whole life.

What was your job again?

I owned a travel agency.

Wow, how cool!

Look at that, you got me talking and I'm losing my clientele.

Bye!

And, bye, King Filipe.

Have a good day at work, Violeta.

Thanks.

Ay ay ay

You watering the plants there, Cida?

Violeta, don't come at me, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.

Jeez, Cida, haven't you heard of something called global warming?

Let's try to cut back on water, girl!

But... but... but...

Get out of here Violeta, go on!

Hey, crazy!

Your hair looks great, you hear?

- Do you like it? - Like a guava!

My son, you need to eat, my son.

If you eat, we'll go for a walk.

I won't eat one more spoonful.

Paulo, help me here.

He must already have eaten enough, Margarida.

No, he didn't.

I already said that I'm not hungry.

Look at the little airplane.

Mmmmm, open your mouth, open your mouth.

Ah, Paulinho.

Come on, Paulinho, eat, listen to your mom.

Wow, this coxinha is pretty good, you hear?

You know,

with a coxinha like this, I would even marry you, Violeta!

Ay ay ay ay

Everyone likes to mess with me, right Toninho?

Look at that.

But you're forgetting that there's a limit, which is that

you know that I'm married, and very well married, you hear?

Ok! That's ok!

But tell me, how much do you want for the recipe?

It's not available either.

It's a family recipe. It was my grandmother's recipe

that my mom passed down to me.

Now, if you want, Toninho, if you really, really want,

you can buy one straight from me. That's the best I can do.

Dang woman, what a difficult lady!

But ok, that's fine, that's fine, leave it at that.

You get all the cash

and I'll just count my pennies.

But that's ok, Violeta, that's ok

Thanks, Toninho. See you later!

See you later, daughter.

And I am a beautiful tree

which needs your care

Come water me, Mama

Come water me

Come water me, Mama

Come water me

I walk the earth

and live off the sun

and my roots

I sway

I sway

I sway

...opt for your electricity bill in a flexible account.

This is going to be a new regime that will permit the consumer,

instead of paying a fixed price for daily electricity use

to use instead a table of prices that will oscillate depending on the time of use.

At peak consumption times, at night for example...

Hey, guy!

Paulo, are you writing this all down?

Yeah, I'm writing it all down.

So put down onions.

Onions.

Not too many, just around three.

Onions, put tomatoes too.

Tomatoes.

Let me see...

Put down margarine.

Margarine.

Oh, bananas.

Look at the bananas.

You ask for bananas and ask for bananas, then you don't eat the

bananas and the bananas go bad and you put them in the fridge.

- They don't go bad. - Bananas don't go in the fridge!

I eat the bananas, but I'm not going to eat them all at once.

Ok, I'm going to put fewer bananas.

- A lot fewer bananas. - A lot fewer bananas.

Put oil too.

Oil.

Do we have everything for you to make escondidinho?

Ah, escondidinho, ok.

Here we go, put cassava.

Cassava.

- Heavy cream, put two boxes of heavy cream. - Two boxes.

For escondidinho, cured beef, right?

Ah, cured beef, put down cured beef.

- Put down cured beef. - Cured beef.

Ok, scallions, put down scallions.

I already put scallions.

No, it wasn't scallions, it was onions.

Scallions, scallions.

Oh, onions.

Don't get confused, don't get confused, scallions.

Scallions.

Ok, I think that's it.

Oh no, my bon bons, my bon bons, bring a box.

Michoacan.

Yes, the capital of Michoacan.

Yes, with an M as in Madonna.

Oh Adolfo, you've been to Mexico, you must know!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 letters.

No, Adolfo, Medellin is in Colombia.

Put your head to work, you have such a good mind for this.

I'm only missing this one.

Yes

Morélia?

Mo-ré-lia

It's Morelia!

Killed it!

Doctor Ivan, Mrs. Vilma is here.

Listen, let me tell you: I forgot my keys at home, you hear?

So don't go to sleep until I get home.

Yes, if you do I'll have to sleep in the street.

Ok

Love you forever.

Hello, Mrs. Vilma!

Good morning, doctor.

How's it going? How are we?

You tell me.

Look, you've got your color back. That's what I like to see.

Good afternoon, Adolfo.

Did you sell them all, Violeta?

Thank god, I sold them all.

What a shame!

I was going to buy one for Felipe.

That little guy drools when he smells them.

Look at that!

I'm telling you, you guys give too much liberty to that dog.

Afterwards, don't complain

when he kicks you and Ivan out of bed

and you guys are sleeping on the floor.

Then I want to see what saint you'll be praying to!

Bye!

Hey, and this scrimmage isn't going to start?

João Tough-guy is a fighter

he doesn't mind giving a slap

and doesn't think about life

João intimidates everyone

He does things that even God doubts

But he has his moments in life

It is when the sun is setting

down past the end of the world and night is coming;

it is when he hears most loudly

the rumble of the waves at the edge of the sea;

it is when the weariness of the works of life

obliges João to sit down;

it is when the morena curls up

and comes to his side,

wanting to please him.

When it is a moonlit night

it makes him want to tell lies

and to stretch out

to lie down on the sand at the beach

that goes farther than the eye can see.

And that is how this man goes to sleep,

he who never needs to sleep to dream,

because there is no dream more beautiful

than his homeland.

No, no.

Look at me, Margarida.

I can't take this anymore.

Look at me, Margarida.

You're going crazy.

My love, react, come on.

He died but you are still alive.

You don't understand my pain.

Do you think I'm not suffering, Margarida?

It's not that, my love, it's not that.

You don't understand my pain, Paulo.

I understand, damn it.

You don't understand that you're still alive.

You don't understand my pain!

Man

This escondidinho is so good!

But it doesn't compare to the escondidinho Margarida used to make.

That's true!

Do you have any news of her?

She's there, right?

I don't know how many times

I've tried to call Margarida.

I call,

I knock on the door,

I send letters

and Margarida doesn't pay any attention to me!

Yeah, She died together with the little boy.

So, who died, guys?

We're talking about an old friend.

So, what, she died?

It's a complicated story.

Hm, hold on.

Escondidinho?

I love escondidinho! I love it.

Let me try it.

I love escondidinho!

The whole death thing

just reminds me of the folks back home.

There was this thing where everyone was going to kill themselves

when Grandma died, because they wouldn't be able to bear it.

No one was going to survive.

And then just to mess with us, Grandma died a week before the festival of Saint John.

Do you believe that come festival of Saint John,

everyone was down at the party at the port?

Man, I looked at all of them, and I couldn't take it.

I said So what, dude?"

Every one was suffering, desperate! And they all had these cynical faces,

and were all like the sentiment is here, it's in the heart, it's in the heart..

Man, it takes all types.

Everyone was going for it,

playing a ton, they were,

eating tons of peanuts, drinking a ton, eating a ton of maniçoba.

It was crazy.

It takes all types. You just stay back there.

People die, and the living keep on living.

That's how it is hun, there's no cure for it.

Adolfo!

Adolfo!

Adolfo!

Babe?

Adolfo!

Babe?

Marcos?

Wake up, Marcos.

I think something is happening at Adolfo's house.

Violeta, let me sleep in peace. Adolfo!

Oh, Ivan yelling!

I'm going over there to see what's happening,

and you see to it that you get up and come with me.

Oh, Adolfo!

Adolfo, honey!

What's happening, Ivan?

Adolfo isn't opening the door.

You don't have your key?

Yeah. I was at work until right now.

I told him not to go to sleep. But it looks like I'm screwed.

Think of a heavy sleeper,

that's Adolfo.

What's this noise?

What's going on?

Adolfo won't open the door.

I'm going to call in the back to see if he hears

Adolfo!

Adolfo!

Wake up, sleeping beauty!

Your dad must be a pretty deep sleeper, huh?

He's not my dad, he's my husband.

Violeta, I had no idea!

What is it, Cida?

Jeez, I didn't know that the cutie was Adolfo!

You knew, didn't you, Violeta?

Why didn't you tell me, unhelpful?

Look at that, me screwing up again!

Ready.

Thanks, Marcos.

Adolfo?

Thin white socks, Marcos.

What?

Thin white socks.

And why are you talking like that?

Because you started to, Marcos.

Thin white socks on Adolfo.

Ivan said to put them on.

He's all ready, ok?

Marcos is going over to our house to call the funeral home,

while I call his family.

Violeta, you're going to waste your time.

Those people turned their backs on Adolfo a long time ago.

I know, babe,

but we have to at least tell them, right?

Where is there a list?

Over there.

Excuse me,

excuse me.

Cosme, Damiana, let's go.

I don't wanna go to school, it's so early.

No sir.

Not on the bed. Come on, get out of here, get out, get out.

Get at hat over there...

Get some soda, go on.

Oh look, how cute...

With the crisis, it's great!

Here, take some soda.

And all of these people here...

Here, I'm going to put a hat on you!

And you cutie, look at your auntie!

Look at the camera over here, come on!

What a pretty little girl!

Let show him now, happy birthday, Paulinho.

Happy birthday Paulinho.

Margarida, look at us, look at us!

Margarida is too embarrassed.

Paulinho, look at the camera over here.

Look over here at Daddy, come on.

Paulinho, look over here, son.

That's it, yay!

We have a surprise for you!

It looks like the surprise was more for her.

Violeta, my love, are you sad? Look what Auntie brought you, so you can cheer up.

Do you want to play?

Sure, you can take one.

I'm going to put you in the middle of everyone.

I brought Violeta for everyone to play together, ok?

Do you want Auntie to open it?

Good morning.

Would you like to buy a coxinha?

They are very fresh, I fried them today.

Hold on, hold on...

Do I know you from somewhere?

You must be mistaken.

Ay, you surprised me Marcos!

Do you want to give me a heart attack?

Good god!

What are you thinking about?

Nothing.

Nothing?

From what I've seen, this head here doesn't stop working for one minute.

Adolfo?

No.

I was just thinking about a woman I saw today in the street.

Babe, I'm sure that I know her from somewhere!

It must be in your head, Violeta.

Lighter

Babe, I know who that woman is.

Who?

That's right, it's her, babe.

Her who, Violeta?

She's the teacher.

What teacher?

Ms. Margarida, babe!

She was my teacher when I was a kid.

Poor thing...

She must still be suffering over what happened.

And the worst part is that I owe her.

I need to visit that woman as soon as possible.

There you go butting into other peoples lives again.

Other people?

Ms. Margarida isn't other people.

This talkative, cheerful, playful woman

that you dated, married, had kids with

wasn't always like this.

After bad luck knocked on my door, it was Ms. Margarida that helped me.

And I'm going to visit her.

Ok.

Do what you want.

Just don't get me involved.

Don't worry, I won't.

Jeez

What's this all about?

What?

This here.

I can't do that?

There are people watching over there.

The kids are sleeping, silly.

And it's just that, huh?

Like that?

Pass the ball, good-life.

Presumptuous.

You're the one who's got it good.

I came to talk to you, Ms. Margarida.

I remembered where I know you from, woman.

You were my teacher when I was a kid.

It's me, Violeta.

Violeta?

Oh my god.

How you've grown!

Yeah, I'm already married and mother of two feisty kids, you've got to see them.

I'm impressed.

And your grandma, how is she?

Poor thing. She's not well.

But yes...

You aren't going to invite me to have a coffee?

I think we had better leave it for another day, Violeta.

The house is really messy.

Jeez, I don't mind that. You should see my house.

I'm going to leave the bike in here.

There always someone who wants to take advantage of you out there.

Oh yeah, I have a present for you.

Coffee?

You know, Ms. Margarida

ever since all that happened to you

my grandma and I were really worried.

Grandma looked, asked around, but no one knew anything.

I even thought you had moved away.

That's your son, right?

It is.

Good god, Ms. Margarida

I'm sorry, but what is this coffee?

It's from yesterday, I just heated it up.

Can I make another?

Make what?

Another coffee

Sure, sure you can.

Did you finish your studies?

No, I got married really young.

You know how it is...

What does your husband do?

Where is the coffee?

Over there. Marcos?

Marcos is a mason, a good one. He always has work.

And how is Paulo?

I haven't heard anything from him in a long time.

I can't believe that you guys split up.

Don't tell me that he ran off with someone else.

No.

He just couldn't stand to stay with who he had.

What an idiot.

You were such a beautiful woman.

I mean...

you are a beautiful woman.

You just need to take a little care of yourself.

But why don't you look for Paulo?

Now this is real coffee!

It's the cinnamon.

What?

I put in cinnamon.

It tastes like christmas.

Coffee with cinnamon is my specialty.

What was his name?

The same as his dad, Paulo.

It's been a while, huh.

I don't want to talk about this.

I think it's been a while.

I was still a kid.

You can't stay like this forever, Ms. Margarida.

Please, Violeta.

You have every right to feel your pain,

but you can't just give yourself over to it like this.

Look at this house. This isn't godly. Look at yourself!

Don't butt into my life, girl!

Don't butt in?

Ms. Margarida

let me tell you a story.

Once upon a time

there was a happy, beloved girl.

Her dad was an idol,

her mom was an example.

A perfect family.

Until one day, looking for her, bad luck knocked on her door

and without cerimony, came into her house,

ate her bread,

drank her water and left leaving a huge, sad emptiness.

Without a father, without a mother,

the girl was alone.

She didn't know what was happening, so she made silence her best companion.

Each day,

each hour,

each minute, each second

the girl felt the most painful pain in the world

that seemed like it would never end.

Until one day,

tired of seeing so much suffering,

God sent an angel to the girl,

an angel dressed as a women.

With simplicity and tenderness,

this angel saved the girl from that eternal pain.

Ms. Margarida, pardon me

but you taught the girl that when there is a big problem

we do have to butt into other people's lives.

Violeta, get out of my house, please!

Under the water everything was more beautiful

more blue and more colorful

but you had to breath.

Under the water forming yourself like a fetus

serene and comfortable, complete, loved

Violeta, shut up!

No floor, no roof, no contact with the air

but you had to breath.

Shut up!

Every day, every day,

Get out my house! Shut up! Get out! Every day, every day

Shut up! Shut up shut up!

I don't want to hear anything else!

That women you remember died together with her son. Get out!

Under the water

without smiling or weeping for now, without lament

and without knowing how long this moment could last

Get out! but you had to breath.

Violeta, get out, get out of my house now! More blue, more colorful

but you had to breath.

I'm asking you to get out now!

Grandma?

There's someone here, ok?

Hello, Mrs. Roquelina.

Thank you so much for taking care of Felipe, you hear?

Thanks.

We don't have any brea-Oh!

Good evening, Marcos.

Cidão!

Now you're going from door to door to pass on the word of God?

Aw shut your mouth, leave me alone.

I came over to get your wife to have a beer with me, an orgy.

Now that's the Cida I know.

Hold on, I'll go get her. Come on in.

Go ahead, call that feisty lady.

I'm not going to come in, this heat wave is killing me.

The greenhouse effect, I'm stuffy.

You're stuffy, huh?

You know.

You're in the bloom of old age.

Go, go on, so it doesn't catch up with you.

Hold on.

What are you looking at?

Me?

I'm looking at the two most beautiful women in God's Bahia.

Did you hear that, grandma?

We're looking good.

The most beautiful grandma!

Oh, I already forgot, Cida is waiting for you to go out.

Gosh, I forgot about our Wednesday beer.

Tell her that I'm just going to tidy up here and I'm coming

Leave it.

I'll tidy up.

Go ahead.

Be careful of Cida, ok?

She wants to take you down a bad path today.

Hey grandma.

Got some food in your mouth,

a little song to sleep.

Life is pretty good, huh?

I'm telling you, you're even gaining weight!

I miss talking with you, did you know that?

Violet, you know that I just say it.

Cida, what a lady, my god.

Ay, Violeta,

I'm also a child of god

and of the highest quality, I'd say in passing.

Good god!

Am I right?

It seems like they buried a donkey's head in the yard of my house.

Everything appears in my life,

but a good man, nothing.

Toninho

Stop exaggerating, Cida.

You're the one who's demanding, right?

Ah, you've got a point there,

but I have to be.

I have spent my whole life getting beaten by the dead.

Now I don't want to hear about any problems.

That's true.

You guys are excited tonight, huh?

Now, that seals it!

That's all I need, to get scolded by the bartender.

Leave me alone, Toninho, fault me!

Get better!

Come here, Cida, Toninho isn't bad!

Don't joke.

Maybe for some people.

I'm here opening my heart, and you're messing with me.

Hold on just a minute, Cida. I'll be right back.

It's quick.

Well, shit!

Well, shit!

Well, shit!

Well, shit!

What was that, Violeta?

That what?

You all intimate with that guy.

Are you nuts?

Shut your mouth, Cida!

You're the one who's nuts.

That's a family friend who I haven't seen in ages.

Hmm, good! I think that's fine.

What are you, the police?

But just here, between us,

he's handsome, you hear?

He is,

but he's taken, so shut your mouth again.

Thank god!

Are you bothered, Violeta?

Only rust likes old things.

I'm into other things.

Way other things.

Young bucks.

Double!

Good afternoon.

Hey little one!

Ivan is coming.

Notice of death.

We announce the death of Roquelina Aparecida Silva.

Her family and friends invite all to the burial

that will take place today at four in the afternoon

in the municipal cemetery.

The grieving family thanks all who come to this act of faith and christian piety...

When I told you it was my specialty, you didn't believe me.

You know Ms. Margarida,

I think that you should get out of this house a little bit.

Let's go have a beer.

No.

Well then lets go for a bike ride.

No, Violeta.

Jeez, woman,

a bike ride never killed anyone.

I don't know how to ride a bike, Violeta.

There! So let's learn!

I'm really good at this.

I've already got two kids on my resume.

You don't give up, do you, girl?

Let's try?

Trying is very difficult, Violeta.

It's just not simple, but it's easy.

Let's go, Teacher.

So, beer or bicycle?

Woman, can you see anything on here?

This TV is filthy.

Have you ever stopped to think

how much time people lose in front of the TV?

It must be because it's more interesting than their own lives.

Not more interesting than mine.

Definitely not.

What's really good

is the cinema.

What do you see as so interesting about cinema?

It's magic.

Cinema is magic, Violeta.

But, how is it?

What do you mean? How is the cinema, woman?

It's a big room full of chairs

and in the front there is a huge white screen.

I know that Ms. Margarida,

I'm not an idiot.

I mean, how do you feel in the cinema?

How do I feel?

When we go into that room

there is a different smell

more or less familiar, more or less comforting, worrying

and it gives us that little flutter in the stomach.

It makes us a little insecure too

because even knowing that that space is full of people

you feel alone in front of that screen.

It's as if the connection that you have with the security of your certainty is cut

and you throw yourself headfirst into a new experience and you never know where it goes.

Everyone says that cinema exists for you to forget your life, your problems

and live in that magic world far from reality

but I don't really believe that.

Cinema for me, a good movie, Violeta

is one that shows the weaknesses, the limitations,

the anguishes that everyone has.

A good movie, above all

wants to try you

and to be tried.

Ah, Violeta, and when that happens

you lose your ground

lose your shame, lose the line

and transcend.

It's in the dark

in front of the image and dominated by the sound

that you can finally confront yourself

and listen to that which you never had the courage to say to yourself.

And at that moment

you find yourself.

You find yourself and lose yourself all at once,

without a mask or a disguise

even if its just for a few minutes.

When the film ends

and the lights go on

everything is different, empty...

That person that sat in the seat will never get up.

That person who gets up

is new, different.

That's it.

That's what cinema is too me.

That's good, Ms. Margarida!

You know, when I was a kid

I used to ask myself

could it be that the same way that we see artists on the screen

they can also see us?

It's fresh!

I have something for you.

So teacher, let's go?

Oh, this beer is nice and cold, you hear?

That's the way I like it.

I want to know how to open a beer like that.

Ah, Cida, I've had years of practice.

Adolfo used to open beer with his teeth.

Jesus! I'm not brave enough to do it with my teeth.

Now at the same time as you pedal with one foot, you take

the other off the ground and keep pedaling, understood?

But you'll hold on to me?

I will, I'm here.

Hold on, stay there, hold on

Don't fill up my glass, hun,

I'm not used to drinking.

Tell another, Cidão.

Dummy!

The way you talk, Margarida is going to think that I'm a drunk.

Don't mind him, he got up this way today.

All hilarious.

Get up folks.

Get up, I want to make a toast.

A toast to life.

Even though it's complicated and full of craziness,

it offers up the most beautiful meetings,

and unbelievable re-meetings.

Health! To life!