Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind…

Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director’s life.

American photojournalist Peter Mandrake becomes embroiled in Brazil’s dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers when he sets out to find the killer of a local call girl.