Based on a famous autobiography, this film tells of teenage angst, as lived in the miserable lower middle class Rio bedroom suburbs, by 15 year-old Eliane. To boot, she comes from a dysfunctional family. Her mother is particularly neurotic and bitter, at odds with virtually everything her daughter does. The film strives to be a realistic and sensitive portrayal of human relationships in one of Brazil's poorest urban landscapes.—ElianeG

In Baixada Fluminense, a proletarian and large area in the State of Rio de Janeiro, the fifteen years old Eliane lives with her neurotic and frustrated mother Eunice, and her sick father Mílton, an earlier retired sergeant of the army and they do not have a good relationship at home. When Eliane meets Otávio, a divorced man eighteen years old older than Eliane, and they fall in love for each other, her family presses Eliane in such an unbearable situation that she runaway from home to another city.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil