Once Upon a Time in Rio

Situated just above the aweinspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum Every day floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible workingclass that cleans apartments works in restaurants and sells food along the scenic sundrenched shores Young Dé Thiago Martins is just such a man Dé lives with his mother Bernadette Cyria Coentro in a cramped Cantagalo apartment selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy and his adopted brother Carlão Rocco Pitanga has been jailed for a robbery that he didnt commit One day while working on the beach Dé meets Nina Vitória Frate Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro Paulo César Grande whos none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class How