Listen, pretty MárciaMárcia is a nurse in a hospital near Rio and
lives in a favela with her boyfriend Aluisio and her daughter, Jaqueline, whom she has
I had a very young man with me. Jaqueline, a frivolous and tall young adult
mouth, makes life difficult for his mother and Aluisio and assiduously frequents the
members of one of the neighborhood gangs, which is the source of violent
altercations between mother and daughter. Jaqueline's boyfriend even comes
to threaten Márcia during a hospital stay… The situation degenerates
even more so the day Jaqueline is arrested by the police for complicity
of theft and receiving stolen goods. Márcia and Aluisio, panicked, go
then realize that Jaqueline is involved in business with criminals
high-flying and a group of corrupt police officers. Marcia then asks Aluisio to
watch Jaqueline, but this one risks big...is a new graphic novel
fast-paced, flamboyantly colored, by one of the most important authors
of the contemporary Brazilian scene. Marcello Quintanilha directs a new
tour de force with this very constructed story where the relationships between each of the
protagonists are revealed gradually in a suspense led by the hand of
master.
