"What about the freedom?" "Love consumes the freedom." "It destroys the self initiative." "Leads to accomodation." "It destroys the individuality." "Leads to weakness." "Be alone." "The strongest man is the one that is alone." "There's no way." "There's no way for love." "The other day a friend of mine asked me... how many women have you loved?" "Two hundred and thirty four." "Not considering my high school teachers." "I have seen all kinds of experience." "Engagements, dangerous affairs... dates, concubinage, strong friendship... homosexuality and even more difficult stuff." "Not mentioning marriage." "Total failure." "And even if love was possible... how to choose a woman?" "There are two many women." "All different." "Shape, size... color, personality." "lmpossible to choose." "lmpossible to choose." "lmpossible to choose." "I know I'm not handsome, but this is not important." "If it was during my parents or grandparents youth." "Maybe it was possible." "Not now." "Women decided to be independent." "Which definitely makes things worse." "There's no way." "Paulo!" "Paulo." "Edu!" "Man!" "Such a long time since we last met." "Get in here." "Come on." "5 years since we've met." "I haven't seen you for more than ten years." "How are the ladies doing?" "How are the ladies doing?" "Do you still have this car?" "I was trapped, Edu." "You won't believe this one." "A woman?" "One called Maria Alice." "Do I know her?" "No." "I met her at a Christmas party." "Do you remember the Christmas just before the Revolution?" "Christmas away from Rio sucks, you know." "Oh, mom!" "I want to tell you this trap... because it was the biggest of my life." "is that serious?" "I decided to throw the party despite of the landlord." "I invited all our girls." "Was Pot Martinha there?" "No, no, she wasn't." "But despite of her, all were there." "I know I couldn't make it." "I even don't know why my hand is shaking." "It's my turn." "Give it to me." "I'll show you how to play this shit." "Paulinho, there's somebody knocking on the door." "What do some eyes have that others don't?" "What does a smile have that others don't?" "I know I fell in love for Maria Alice at first sight." "Paulo, I want to meet my friend:" "Leopoldo." "Nice to meet you." "Ana Cristina, where are you?" "Your place is very beautiful." "Be my guest." "Thank you. I want you to meet my fiancé, Maria Alice." "Nice to meet you." "Paulo." "Can I get you anything to drink?" "Gin?" "My house is a big house, you know, Maria Alice." "I have this Christmas tradition, you know, Leopoldo." "Everybody has to write their name in a ball... and put it on the tree, so next year... I don't know this one." "This flat coasts 150 bucks." "Cheap." "Old rent." "I like Christmas very much, you know." "Christmas is Christ's birthday." "I don't know why I have this habit to put..." "pieces of paper on the wall." "Ah, this one is beautiful." "I am a journalist. I am writing a kind of... biographical novel during my spare time." "This ones here are my dogs, aren't they cute?" "Look, this one is beautiful." "This one is Flynish." "That's cute." "If you like walls with pieces of paper... I have one with only old people on the other room." "That's cute." "Paulo, it's time to give the presents." "Paulo, it's time to give the presents, isn't it?" "Come on, Paulo, are we going to give the presents or not?" "Book, doll, record..." "Where is my present?" "Where is mine?" "From Paulo to Leopoldo." "And from Paulo to Maria Alice." "Look!" "Leopoldo is an excellent guy." "lt took me time to see that." "Look what I got." "But five minutes later, he said he had to go." "He had to get to work early next day." "Then I had to do something." "The door key was stolen." "I want to know... who was the person that stole the door key?" "Take it easy." "Take it easy." "We can make it." "Break it, otherwise we won't make it." "Take it easy." "Hold on. I have a solution. ls there a hairpin?" "Do you have hairpin?" "Do you have a hairpin?" "Don't you have a hairpin?" "Give me a hairpin." "I don't know what happens at my parties... somebody always steals the door key." "Last year the guys were stuck here... until New Year's Eve." "We had to call the fireman." "People were starving." "But Leopoldo is a very skilled guy." "He will open this door in a minute." "This one he won't open." "Yale, darling, Yale." "I got it!" "I opened it!" "Maria Alice?" "Maria Alice, I open it." "I open it with a hairpin." "With a hairpin." "Let's go." "What a trap!" "lt was nothing, man." "At that night I got her..." "job address." "But how?" "From Glorinha." "Do you remember?" "." "The one from the newspaper?" "." "My darling, you can't deny this information." "You can't." "Maria Alice, what a coincidence!" "You know I was thinking about you?" "Do you work here?" "I couldn't tell." "What do you do?" "Secretary?" "In the morning." "I have two jobs, you know." "I like to earn my money." "But it's no use. I spend it all." "Listen, didn't I know you before the party?" "Really." "l see..." "Do you know what you remind me?" "You remind me of carnival." "That's possible." "Last year I was at Salgueiro." "Hei, man, come here." "Give me one here." "The old one." "Give me the old." "The old to the gentleman." "Here." "Keep the change." "Thanks." "Thank you very much." "Where did you study?" "At Sion." "Then you know Pot Martinha, she also studied there." "No, she wasn't in my class." "Oh, yes." "Martinha is older." "Listen, let's see the man who feeds the pigeon." "I'm late." "Come on." "Just for a moment." "How is Leopoldo doing?" "Fine, thanks." "Don't you think it's boring Maria Alice... to date a guy called Leopoldo?" "What is he like?" "Who, Leopoldo?" "Yes." "For example, what does he have that I don't?" "I don't know, Leopoldo is a nice guy." "A very serious guy." "Then, you don't think I'm nice." "Because I'm not serious." "Or am I?" "But you are also a nice guy." "Why?" "Because you are not serious." "Maria Alice, I think you are an intelligent lady... so I can tell you." "Well..." "Look, I am falling in love with you." "Do you have anything against it?" "For example, we both... in your opinion, do we have any chance?" "This is difficult to say." "l know, but..." "Do you know what I think about love, Paulo?" "I think love depends on us." "You know, an object." "That we like and don't want to break... or something like this." "Then you have to take care, clean everyday." "So, I think love is an object like this." "That's why Leopoldo and I have a chance. I guess." "Wonderful." "Licinha wonderful." "Hi, Paulo." "I thought we had said everything yesterday." "Leopoldo is about to arrive." "Look who's at the beach." "It causes a great trouble." "A big mess." "But he is a great friend." "It's boring, isn't it?" "You live by yourself." "How do you know?" "l didn't know." "Maria Alice, I wan to invite you to take me this afternoon... to the amusement park." "What do you think?" "I love amusement park." "Today is Sunday and I'm going to the cinema with Leopoldo." "I'll give you a suggestion." "Why don't you tell you fiancé to engage some other fiancé... and you become my fiancé because I don't have one." "Hi, Leopoldo, how are you?" "How are you?" "I liked very much your party." "I like very much this different place, you know." "Let's go to the water?" "Come on?" "lsn't it cold?" "No, it's great Come on, man." "Come on." "Hold the radio." "I brought lotion to you." "Here." "Wait up, I'll open the tend, okay?" "What a wave!" "Poor thing." "Does he swim?" "Paulinho, such a long time..." "I missed you." "Paulo, I'll tell you the most extraordinary thing." "You are so over-exaggerated." "l am engaged." "Are those your friends?" "Sorry to ask, Maria Alice... but is that guy trying something with you?" "Yes." "What an unpleasant situation, such a nice guy." "Do you want to go somewhere else?" "Let's go." "I am engaged. I'm going to be married by the end of the year." "Guess with who?" "Who?" "With Orlando, Coronel Ricardino's son." "Who?" "The police chief." "But it's weird he is dating you." "Paulo, let's go inside?" "No. I don't like to go further the waves, it's dangerous." "I can't swim very well." "Then let's go there." "Let's go there." "I'm going to eat a sandwich." "Listen, Paulo." ""l'm desperate..."" ""because my boyfriend is always hugging his mates."" ""l love him." "And if I lose him..."" ""l'll find and end to my life."" ""Desperate and regretted girl from Paraná."" "Answer: "come on..."" ""what kind of great love is this that allows him to hug mates?"" "Such boring women!" "My God!" "So juicy... and so boring." "is Maria Alice going to be for a long time in the water." "At that time I didn't know, that was before the party... when she gets in the water she stays for more than 1h." "Maria Alice loves the beach." "One day she tried to explain and said:" "Listen carefully "At the beach, Paulo..."" ""l feel at home." Nice, isn't it?" "lsn't it nice, Edu?" "Yes." "The best thing that can happen to a lady... is to date a policeman." "At least is the law." "The other day I was at Lê Bateau when all of a sudden... police blitz." "Soft skin." "It's a virtue soft skin." "Paulo, here you are at this point of the road." "A woman in the sea, others on the sand..." "You can never say no to a woman." "Never." "It would be cruel, immoral and indecent." "Women... one has to know them deeply." "And there aren't many ways to know them deeply." "The Don Juan behavior... is a Christian feeling." "Paulo, I came to say bye." "Leopoldo..." "We are going somewhere else." "There are friends waiting for us." "Then I'm going with you." "We are all going there." "Paulo, that's so rude." "You didn't even introduced us." "Nice to meet you, Dorinha." "Nice to meet you." "Listen, darling, we can't go somewhere else." "Why?" "You arrenged with some friends?" "Don't you remember?" "With Horacinho too." "Yes, also Paulete, with Horacinho. I can't make it." "Then was it the trap." "No." "That was the preparation." "Because on the next day..." "actually, to be honest... five minutes after she had left... I was already missing her." "I know it's ridiculous, Edu." "I am in love with you." "Really. I mean it." "Head over hells." ""ln love: a feeling, to love or like very much."" ""Taken by passion, possessed..."" ""possessed by a great love."" "And how did you find me here?" "I waited at your work for one hour, then I followed you." "What book is this?" "lt's about education." "I am really interested in this subject, you know." ""At our school..."" ""we give our students since the first day the right to choose."" ""There's no class schedule, or established subjects."" ""Nothing is compulsory."" ""At first kids are freighted with all this freedom..."" ""but then they get used."" ""That's what we try to build."" ""A fearless freedom..."" ""at Sumerville, England." Cool." "Paulo... this situation is getting unpleasant." "You following me..." "Leopoldo has noticed." ""Unpleasant:"" ""adjective, quality."" ""Nasty and not at all enjoyable..."" "lt's impossible to talk to you." ""nasty..."" "You are a clown." "And the jokes, darling, the jokes I'd make up to make you laugh?" "If you dated me, I swear, you would laugh all the time." "Then let's bet on something." "Do you take it?" "Anything." "You have to make me laugh now." "If you make me laugh now... right now, I swear, I'll date you for a while." "Maria Alice..." "Maria Alice?" "Maria Alice?" "That's it." "I lost the bet." "You are not laughing, you know." "You are quite serious actually." "Don't forget me. okay?" "I really like you." "If you want give me a call, if you don't, I won't bother you." "Do you have my telephone number?" "Of course I didn't sleep that night... waiting for the phone call." "Next day I woke up, took a shower..." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" ""Temptation:"" ""Noun, state you are in when you feel you want..."" ""to do something which..."" ""you know you really ought to avoid."" ""Something that attracts you a great deal."" "Listen, do you have anything to do this afternoon?" "Or you can take me to the amusement park?" "That day was so nice, that I only remember the end." "Let's have a cup of coffee?" "No." "Let's go to my place." "Sweetie, I won't have time to sleep." "I have to work." "You can keep sleeping, okay?" "When I arrive, I'll wake you up." "Okay." "The good thing about her, Edu... is that I was surprised every moment." "Maria Alice surprised me every moment." "Good morning." "first CONSEQUENCES I got the scholarship, Neuzinha." "I'm going to Mexico." "Isn't it wonderful?" "Mexico!" "Study the Aztec culture." "The aztecs are an indian tribe... absolutely fantastic." "Did you know that before, the discovery of America... they had already invented the soccer game?" "Isn't it fantastic?" "You know, I was wondering... wondering a lot, a lot really." "Of course I take full responsibility for my acts." "Bur what we are doing to your husband... is not fair, lsmênia." "It's not fair." "Florinda, there is a time when the man can't see." "And another time when he can see again." "I can't handle anymore what you are doing with me." "Do you think I don't know that while you are dating me... you are also dating Edu." "Ah, you know, really?" "That sucks." "Time can erase everything, Edu." "But right after she did the same thing to me." "She dated me and Firmino at the same time." "Well, she was kind of neurotic." "Valéria." "Don't be afraid." "That was the only way I managed to get in here." "I need to talk to you." "We need to put an end to our affair." "There's this girl who decided to date me... so..." "you know... a little fidelity just to get her excited in the begging." "Unfortunately, that's how it works, Leopoldo." "I mean, I don't know if it's unfortunately, but that's it." "I think I like Paulo." "We always got along too well... to say more than that." "You don't like me anymore?" "Of course not." "You think you'll like him?" "I don't know, Leopoldo." "This is hard to say." "You don't have to say anything else Maria Alice." "I understand that now you want to spend more time with Paulo." "After all I like you. I have to respect your decisions." "I should give you back the dolls you gave me." "But then..." "l thought it was nonsense." "Of course it's nonsense." "I just want one to be with." "Maria Alice, I want you to know that... I never loved any lady the way I loved you." "And I'll call every day to see how... you are doing." "My life with Maria Alice was wonderful." "But what about the trap?" "She used to like to do different things, she helped me... and talked to me a lot." ""Anatomy gets crazy with me." "I am all guided by my heart." "Maria Alice..." "Maria Alice?" "Yes." "Read and tell me, what do you think?" "Well, what do you think?" "I think it's very bad." "Women should be stupid, Maria Alice." "Stay at home cooking, washing the dishes." "I don't think so." "Men are all the same" "You like independent women, and the ones that aren't." "Maybe you are right." "The worst is that women are the same." "We also." "We want to be independent." "And don't want." "The Duck came Singing happily" "When Marreco with a smile Screamed" "Carcará, takes, kills and eats I made bed on the porch" "You are so out of tune." "Despite of all that I need to sing." "Look, a fallen star." "No, it's not." "It's too slow." "Maybe it's a satellite." "You are right." "But now it's no use, I've already made my wish." "What was that?" "No, I am shy." "Don't be." "Tell me." "One day..." "I want to get married at the church." "All dressed in white." "Maria Alice?" "Come up here, I want to do something." "But up there?" "I really want to dance Let's dance, Maria Alice?" "There's this club I used to go with the guys... that's really exciting." "Great." "Let's go?" "But now?" "I was going to be, Paulo." "Forget it, baby, life is too short." "Come on." "Come. lf you want you can sleep there." "Hi, Vieira, how are you?" "Fine, thanks." "Where is everybody?" "lt's empty." "Lately that's how it has been." "You know, Maria Alice, for how long l haven't been here?" "Eight months." "Very good." "Where are the guys?" "That's it, isn't it?" "Oh, darling, I missed you!" "Maria Alice, I want to introduce some friends." "Here the friend..." "Einstein." "Ulisses, Albino..." "Albino, how are you?" "Maria Alice, such a long time..." "How is everything?" "You guys knew each other?" "We lived in the same street." "We lived in the same street." "You are so down, guys." "Let's dance, everybody!" "Let's dance." "Come on." "Let's dance, baby." "Come." "Come on." "Come on, Maria Alice." "Great, Alicinha, I knew you could do it." "Here." "Drink it." "Darling, I'll rest for a while, okay?" "I'm tired." "But you can stay here." "Vieira, how is everybody doing?" "is Aristide still arguing with his wife?" "He killed himself, you didn't know, did you?" "And you, how are you doing?" "Fine." "Single?" "Absolutely single." "Man, what am I missing,?" "What am I missing?" "Norma, you know what do you look like?" "A horse." "You look like a horse." "Maria, I'm tired, let's go home." "Paulo, I didn't want to come." "You asked, I came." "Now I want to stay." "Let's stay a little longer." "Don't be a pain in the neck." "Paulo, let her stay." "No!" "If you want to stay, stay by yourself. I'm leaving." "Only 15 more minutes, Paulo?" "No. I have already waited for two hours." "Then you go." "I'm not going." "Go." "No I'm not going." "Even or odds?" "Even." "Odds." "One, two, three and go." "I won." "You won." "Yes... then I'll go." "A game is a game." "We used to live very well." "Me and her." "But we had a small problem." "THE SMALL PROBLEM" "Honey, I think I'll take the end of my vacations... to visit my brother at Curitiba." "My nephew was born, and I still don't know him" "You are not going to visit your nephew." "This house is too big for me to be here alone." "Don't be such a pain in the ass." "If you go, when are you going?" "This weekend." "Otherwise my vacations will be over." "No, Maria..." "Hello?" "Cousin Paulo, I missed you so much." "Here is your cousin Barbara." "Such a long time we don't meet, Paulo. I missed you so much." "What happened to you?" "Did you get sick?" "Did you get married?" "How nice." "Come to visit us, Paulo." "Me and Dunia need to see you." "I am living with some friends." "Me and Dunia talked so much about you." "Everybody wants to know you." "My Argentinean friend is also coming." "She is an actress" "Absolutely fantastic." "Me and Dunia made up absolutely fantastic games." "Bring your wife too." "If there's no other way." "This is difficult for me, Maria Alice... but it's fair that you want to see your nephew." "After all you still don't know him." "It's only for this weekend." "If you miss me, come back soon, okay?" "Okay." "What are you thinking about?" "l'm upset to leave you." "Me too." "l'm going to miss you." "Me too." "When I get there I'll call you." "Don't forget, okay?" "." "You don't forget me." "Never." "You are not going to cheat on me, are you?" "Don't be silly." "What are you thinking about?" "Let's have a baby sometime?" "So I don't have to see my brother's son." "I don't know, Alicinha." "I'm still very young." "So am I." "Take care of yourself." "Bye." "Take care, you too." "Bye." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Barbara?" "She is downstairs." "She is at the sauna." "Right in the beginning... it was a huge empty space." "Black." "And God... a red... cylinder." "Ten meters high." "With two eyes in one of the edges." "Nobody knows which one, because there's no reference." "God... of course... there was nothing to do." "Then He thought." "Everything that happened..." "will happen... inside me." "In you." "And one day... I had already thought everything there was to think about." "Then he wondered through the emptiness." "A millennium." "Or two." "And He died bored." "Then..." "He started to decompose." "The cylinder lost it's shape... and became that first galaxy... you read about in the books." "Cousin Paulo... I drank so much yesterday... I have a hangover." "Hangover." "How are you?" "Fine?" "What about ant Julinha, how is she doing?" "What game is this?" "Tuti." "ls there a place for me?" "Yes." "Sit down." "Then let's go." "For you there's always a place." "I know I would end up playing Tuti with my cousins." "While this, in São Paulo..." "Was having an adventure that could be called... extraordinary." "Good afternoon. I would like a ticket to Curitiba... at the six o'clock flight." "We don't have a flight to Curitiba at 6 only at 1 1 p.m." "Only at 1 1 :00 p.m.?" "Yes." "If the lady wants someone to be with around town... I am available." "There's no doubt that the woman... is not the natural female for man." "During a tragic seismic phenomenon... man lost his natural female." "And maybe in this phenomenon... the woman too lost her natural male." "These two species essentially different... still live together nowadays... an abnormal symbiosis." "One day I'll get back to literature... to write a love novel... with bugs as characters." "What music is this?" "lt's Rita playing the piano." "Don't you know?" "Let's get to know the unknown." "Beautiful woman." "Weird." "Sad." "What do you know about it?" "My dear, no one can answer your question." "Rita's life is a mystery." "She was married 3 times, and tried to kill herself once... and once she lost a fortune at a poker table... at Monte Carlo." "I liked the girl, you know." "She has an inner life." "Tea with toasts, please." "Let's play the bottle game?" "Do you still play this?" "Yes, we do, why?" "Don't you want?" "Yes, I do." "If you had to chose a woman to be your wife... how would you chose?" "The difficult part is not to chose one... but to give up the others." "Excuse me. I'd like to sit for a moment." "Just a moment." "You probably noticed that I'm following you... for a while." "This is it:" "You look very much like a... person I met once." "No. I know. I know this is a very ordinary thing to say." "But it's not ordinary to be true." "I'd like to explain why I sat down here." "it's just you look so much like this... girl I met... I'd like to tell you my story... and say my line." "I like my story and my line very much." "I tell this to as many people I can." "To be honest this is the only thing I say." "This girl... I like her." "She liked me... we were happy... everything was quite simple." "Simple." "Quite simple." "Then she didn't like me anymore." "No." "Don't think this desperates me." "No it doesn't." "Just because it happened once... it doesn't mean it should continue." "It was." "My despair... if I can call you this... it's... the time I was happy... and I didn't enjoy it as much as I could have." "When I could..." "I didn't enjoy it." "That's my story." "My line... I read on the school wall when I was a boy." "Since then it is in my mind." "I didn't even understand." "Now it's my line." ""Each moment..."" ""give to the others..."" ""the best and the biggest..."" ""love and tenderness."" ""Because nobody will ever..."" ""be twice at the same path."" "What's you favorite thing about love?" "What's you favorite thing about love?" "The women." "If you could now, Paulo... chose one of us." "Which one would you chose?" "All of you." "What do you suggest... to make your life better?" "Suicide." "In your opinion which is the most important... personality nowadays?" "James Bond, in my opinion." "I think now we can play..." "the bird game." "What game is this?" "One I just made up." "Are you the prize?" "The game is very simple." "The one who finds the bird, can do whatever he wants." "But Barbara, I am the prize." "I'll lose anyway." "No, my dear, you play too." "If you find, you can do whatever you want to yourself." "Are you back already?" "It's too early." "Didn't you like São Paulo?" "I bet you are from Rio." "What happened?" "Did you give up about the trip?" "Yes, I gave up." "Why?" "I miss my husband a lot." "I can't chose." "It's your turn now." "You won!" "You won!" "You can do whatever you want with me." "What do you want to do with me?" "I remember, Edu... I tried to refuse." "But I couldn't, Edu." "I couldn't." "But, Paulo, on the couch?" "Well, what about the trap?" "You can't leave." "No way!" "You can't leave." "Darling, I can explain, I went to Bárbara`s party." "You know Barbara." "Stop it." "After all you always liked me." "You trusted me." "Darling, they chose me for the bird game. I was the prize." "It's the human weakness." "You shouldn't have left me alone." "Did you read Dr. Jack and Mr. Heidi?" "Darling, I couldn't have done anything." "I like you." "What about the women, Licinha?" "What about the women I lost because of you?" "Because of you." "I don't want you to go." "I love you." "And if I love you, I am automatically forgiven." "Really?" "My baby..." "I'm begging, Maria Alice." "I swear it won't happen again." "I swear to God." "I swear to my mother's health." "Alicinha, Listen." "You don't love me." "Stubborn lady, isn't it?" "You were too weak." "She had to set you up this trap." "She didn't want to get back together." "And the Argentinean?" "She was waiting." "And you didn't enjoy the night." "Naturally." "It was already lost." "It's psychological, Rita." "I swear this never happened to me." "It's psychological." "Psychological, psychological, psychological." "What happened later, I don't remember." "I don't remember very well." "I just kept the feeling." "Paulinho, my love, how are you?" "Fine?" "Good." "Very good." "To be single is wonderful." "Where is the party on Saturday?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello, Alicinha?" "Hello?" "I know it's you, Alicinha." "Why don't you answer?" "." "I am suffering, darling." "How can you make me suffer like this?" "Don't you understand it was only a moment?" "l think I understand." "And you don't forgive me?" "I think I forgive you." "Why don't you come back home right now?" "I don't know, Paulo." "I don't think I should." "Why?" "You know, maybe I should have dated Leopoldo." "No." "Maria Alice, listen..." "One day, I decided to bring her back" "Open up, Maria Alice." "I know you are in there." "Don't try to run away." "If there's someone with you, I'll kill him!" "I'll kill him!" "Look." "Scumbag." "Don't bother me." "Maria Alice, I love you." "I know." "I love you too." "Isn't it enough?" "No." "I can't live without you." "The world has so many women, Licinha." "Maybe you are not the best... but you are the one I love." "I behaved like a child." "Now I learned." "Your comparison is funny." "lt's real." "Believe." "I am lonely, Paulo." "I like to be lonely." "Even when I am in love, I like to be lonely." "Let me decide, Paulo." "Take it easy." "It won't be easy." "I also remember, Edu that by this time ... I discovered that instead of only me... I loved Maria Alice." "Are you back darling?" "Back?" "Forgive me" "But don't do this with me, okay?" "I suffered too." "She was one of a kind." "One of a kind." "I can't resist anymore." "I'll tell how she was in bed." "But you can't tell anyone." "l promise." "She was... a specialist." "She had a gift." "Greater than the teacher." "You know that kind of woman that when... you don't have anything else she makes something up?" "To make love to Maria Alice was... like to be over the moon." "TOGETHER again I'll give you a chance" "You are busted." "Paulo, this is so big!" "Nice!" "A healthy life this weekend." "Paulo, where are you?" "From Monday on... I want to write at least eight pages a day." "Maria Alice, where are you?" "Right here, darling." "Good morning day" "Maria Alice, I wrote a poem for you." "I don't know if it's good, but it's yours." "Let me put this way:" ""lf your body's secret wasn't mine"" ""l would tell the world"" ""About your wild hair"" ""Where the night is dark"" ""About your mouth"" ""Just like the cradle I was born"" ""About your fingers" "Longs as screams"" ""About your body"" ""To understand it, Maria Alice"" ""lt takes time"" ""About your sex" "A river"" ""Where my ship floats To the seven wind passions" ""Long way"" ""A few travelers were here Unpunished"" ""And about your soul"" ""Your soul is your body, Maria Alice"" "Promise me... that you will never have another man in your life... except me." "No." "Why?" "I don't like promises." "You should promise." "that you will never have another woman in your life except me..." "No." "Why?" "I don't like promises." "What day is today?" "Monday." "I need to call Pacheco." "Hello?" "Hello." "Sorry, I'm late." "No problem." "Alicinha is cooking dinner." "At the porch?" "Great." "There's no good that lasts forever... or evil that can't come to an end." "One day Leopoldo decided to interfere." "But Leopoldo?" "I thought he wasn't part of this story anymore." "So did I." "I admire you very much." "The artists." "They are always happy... without worries." "Make up stuff..." "I don't know." "But it's not worth it." "Things are not the way we invent." "For example, now... I am writing a television series... that is supposed to be a love story with a happy end." "And we know this doesn't exist." "I'll give you an idea." "Why don't you write about your story with Maria Alice?" "When it airs?" "I want to watch it." "We have our own problems, don't we, darling?" "Maria Alice is a bad tempered person." "Despite of this, she has no problem." "Me, for example... I am sure, I'll never... find someone like her for me." "This shrimp is very good." "Did you do it yourself?" "With special sauce?" "Leopoldo, you are a quiet guy... lt's a family thing." "We are eleven brothers." "I am the youngest." "When you left me, Maria Alice, you chose Paulo... then I got really angry." "I even took some tranquilizers." "But now, I don't know." "Tonight is so pleasant..." "this dinner you two together..." "I don't know... I guess that was better this way." "After some time, lt always seems right." "You're wrong, Leopoldo." "Men die and aren't happy." "Yes." "This is right." "Look!" "Look, Paulo, the way she laughs." "Leopoldo, I love you." "Maria Alice... I wrote a great thing Listen." ""That your scream of love reach the last star"" ""And also the space"" ""After the last star" lsn't it great?" "Hello?" "Maria Alice?" "This is Leopoldo." "How nice to hear you." "Sorry I didn't call yesterday... but I was busy." "You know, I got a promotion here at the bank." "Junior manager." "Isn't it great?" "I am so excited." "I miss you so much." "Your doll is here at my table to wish me luck." "And it does." "In the begging, the guys were scared, but then... I won't be able to call you tomorrow." "I'm going to spend the weekend at my boss` place at Cabo Frio." "I'll bring you a souvenir." "I am happy to know that you are doing well." "Paulo is okay, isn't him?" "Great." "Kisses, Maria Alice." "I miss you." "See you on Monday." " See you on Monday." "See you on Monday." "See you on Monday." "See you on Monday." "What can we say about a dead man?" "lmmediately." "And he didn't seem to be dying." "Yeah." "lt was a difficult situation." "Maria Alice was really depressed... I thought she couldn't make it." "And I couldn't do anything" "Darling, do you want a cup of coffee?" "No." "Thanks." "I tried everything." "Darling, I am sad." "Don't worry." "As soon as I can, I'll be happy again." "You wait, don't you?" "A revelation" "Maria Alice was okay again, Edu." "Maria Alice you have to get over it." "There are two kinds of women, Edu." "Moon and sun." "Maria Alice was a sun woman." "Maria Alice... let's have a baby?" "A baby, we both?" "Do you think it's worth it?" "I am sure, right now." "Maria Alice, let's have a baby?" "And that was the trap." "She got married all dressed in white." "I have two children now." "Paulo, but it's terrible." "Because of Maria Alice, I gave up all the women in the world." "When I think about the Don Juan the world lost." "But it can't work." "This kind of thing doesn't work." "I think it does, you know." "I mean, we argue but it always ends up okay." "Now we are really excited." "My mother is taking care the children for 3 months... right in the beginning of next year." "I got a ticket I saw on the paper... and with some savings, l`ll take Maria Alice." "England, Edu." "She really wants to know England and study." "I don't believe it's working." "What about the other women?" "It's a piece of cake." "Get married and I'll teach you." "I discovered this the other day." "lt`s great. I even wrote it down." "Love, Edu, is like an object... you need to take care, clean..." "Did you get it?" "I'll explain it better some other time." "What about the other women?" "Really, what about the women?" "How are they?" "Dorinha, Solanginha, Pot Martinha..." "Janinha Vintém, Isabel?" "Leila?" "They're fine." "Edu, next Sunday it's my son's first birthday." "And we are having a party at my place." "Why don't you bring the guys over to know Maria Alice?"