Rio de Janeiro is a fantasy, as much as a city. A destination for every runaway criminal in the movies. To scape to Rio seems like a solution to every problem – broken heart, debts, the mob or the police. Never mind. Lets just samba on the beach and drink caipirinhas forever.
Well, what they don´t know is how smart they´d have to be to outsmart our criminals or even the average cab driver. What we call “malandragem”, our word to streetwise, is a way of life in Brasil, especially on Rio and particularly in Copacabana, destionation of every clueless tourist on the world. Here the whores, doormen, cab drivers and busboys live to serve and trick tourists on the same measure. With a smile.
Diana´s not so bad. Working the streets of Copacabana, she plays the field with grace and mostly fairly, but things are hard now. She´s in deep shit. She´ll have to come up with some money, fast. So she takes some shortcuts. And things go wrong. Really wrong.
