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- December 1970: Brazil is under a military dictatorship. The Swiss ambassador in Brazil is kidnapped by a group of rebels. 40 days later they trade the ambassador by seventy political prisoners. The documentary find those prisoners 40 years later. Who are they? How they pass trough prison, torture, exile. How they manage to live?
- CALLADO is a biography about the writer and journalist Antonio Callado. The documentary reminds us of the fight for democracy , the commitments with Brazil and the shocking facts about the writer's life. His famous pieces that went throughout the XX Century also stand out in the film, today they represent an alarming truth about the dark era of our times. His coworkers, friends and family such as his widow wife and his daughter,Ana Arruda, try to explain in this movie who was Antonio Callado. But, at the end, there's a doubt that stands out. Maybe the real Callado is not the person we think we know, from real life, but the person who lives stuck in his book, being set free by the power of his reader's imagination.
- A member of the Brazilian Revolutionary Communist Party (PCBR), Theodomiro Romeiro dos Santos was the first Brazilian prisoner sentenced to death in the republican period - for the murder of a sergeant in 1971. The sentence was later changed to a sentence of life in prison. Arrested at 18, he was savagely tortured and served nine years in prison. The imminence of the 1979 Amnesty law gave him the certainty that they planned to kill him. Theodomiro then flees, embarking on an adventure which the details have remained hidden for years. In this film, accompanied by his youngest son, Guga, Theodomiro retraces his path.
- Edna Savaget has lived over 30 years working in Rio DE Janeiro's television broadcasting. Pioneer of the feminine programs of the Brazil's TVshows, she had the biggest evening audience. Writer and Poet, she hosted the biggest local culture personalities. Her memory still lives and is told by those who shared moments behind the scenes. A throw back to the start of TV-shows in Brazil.
- The memory of rebels who fought against the military dictatorship in Brazil, with the testimony of those involved in the kidnap of the Swiss ambassador.