Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.

◎获奖情况

　　第35届柏林国际电影节(1985)

　　费比西奖（国际影评人联盟奖） 论坛及新电影论坛最佳影片