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.
Átila Iório
Gaúcho
Nelson Xavier
Mário
Maria Gladys
Luísa
Leonidas Bayer
Sargento
Ivan Cândido
301
Paulo César Peréio
Pedro
Hugo Carvana
José
Mauricio Loyola
Religious Man
Ruy Polanah
Bar owner
Joel Barcellos
Man with dead child
Antônio Pitanga
Voice
Cecil Thiré
Maria Adélia
Paulo Campos
Hugo Kusnet
