Luis Carlos, also called «The Rat» and Luciano de Souza also known as «The Chinaman» are two kids brought up in the streets, two Cariocas teenagers left to their own devices: begging, stealing, dealing and taking drugs, but also friend- ships, carnival with always arrest, violence and jail at the ,end.

 

For a month, Thierry Michel followed them and witnessed their everyday life constantly hovering between the pathetic and the tragic, to end with the violent death of one of them.

 

A unique document which was filmed in spite of barriers put up by a country that doesn’t want this of reality to be filmed.