A severe drought has the man moving on from the ranch with his family to earn their living elsewhere.Īfter killing his employer when said employer tries to cheat him out of his payment, a man becomes an outlaw and starts following a self-proclaimed saint. Despite being the victim of injustice, the man believes there should be some semblance of law and order and makes no protest about the incident. The ranch hand protests, and a fight ensues that results in his beating by the cop. The father is duped into a card game with a crooked local policeman. They move into an abandoned house, and their fortunes begin to take an upward turn. A poor Brazilian family struggle to earn a living when they take a job overseeing the livestock of a wealthy rancher. But the drought and misery destroy their hopes.įilmed with a strong sense of compassion for the impoverished and an underlying hatred for the injustice which forces them into the lives they must live, this is one of the first works from Brazil’s Cinema Novo. A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father Sinhá Vitória, the mother their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place to live, with food and work.
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