خلاصه داستان : در شهر کوچکی از کشور برزیل،فلور زنی بسیار زیبا با وادینهو مردی خوشتیب ازدواج می کند.اما پس از ازدواج متوجه می شود علاقه ای به او ندارد.او به همسایه هایش آشپزی آموزش می دهد اما همه پولهایش را صرف قمار می کند.یک روز وادینهو می میرد و فلور با مرد دیگری ازدواج می کند و...

In a small city of Brazil, Flor, a cooking teacher, marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing who takes all her money to gamble. After his death, Flor misses the goods of the marriage so she marries again with a very correct gentleman - the owner of a drugstore. Now she's very happy with her man, but misses the erotic moments with her previous husband. One day, Vadinho comes back as a ghost to quench her desires.

خلاصه داستان : در یک منطقه فقیر نشین در شمال برزیل، سربازان در تلاشند تا جلوی دزدی مردم گرسنه از را از یک انبار مواد غذایی را بگیرند و...

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.