""Best Documentary 32nd Festival de Gramado 2004"" ""Best Documentary 8th Forum Doc Belo Horizonte 2004"" ""Prêmio José Lewgoy Best Feature Film 2004"" ""Best Film" " II International Festival of Feminine Cinema 2005"" ""Best Documentary" "Festival of Cinema and Video of Portuguese Speaking Countries 2005"" ""Best Film" "IV Spanish-American Festival of Independent Documental Video (Mexico) 2006"" ""Best Documentary" " International Festival El Ojo Cojo (Spain) 2005"" ""This film was selected by Programa Petrobras Cultural"" ""This film was financed by" "Sundance Institute Documentary Fund"" ""THE PRISON AND THE STREET"" "Hair dye?" "This way, please." "Come with me." " How much?" " It's $14.30." "I'll have my hair cut this short." "How many will I need?" " Just one is enough." " One is enough?" "I'll take it." "Then, for $35.00, the large one... and at $32.00..." "It's the same price, the large one and that one... it's the same codfish." "Where can I take the bus to Teresópolis?" "To Teresópolis?" "I think you'll have to go that way, around that corner." "Yeah?" "Where's the bus to Teresópolis?" " At the market." " Thank you." " Where can I take the bus?" " Teresópolis?" " Yeah." " At the square." "Over there." " That way?" " Yeah, that bus stop... where you can see that bus turning." "Thank you." "Where do I take the bus to Teresópolis?" "Teresópolis?" "On the other side." " On the other side?" " Yes." "To Teresópolis, I don't know." "Must be that way." "I'm going further away each time!" "Thank you." " Teresópolis is up there, right?" " Salgado Filho." "Salgado Filho street, up that way." "Thank you very much." "Cell phone cases!" "Cases, cases, cases!" "Where can I take the bus to Teresópolis?" "Teresópolis?" "You can take it right here... you have buses Jardim Vila Nova, Grutinha, right here... or Vila Nova over there." "Are you filming something, or is it just my impression?" "No, I really don't know." " You don't know?" " No." " Well, Jardim Vila Nova here..." " Do you know why I don't know?" " Why?" " Because I've just left jail." "Checking!" "MADRE PELLETIER PENITENTIARY" "PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL" " Good evening, agent." " Good evening." "What people think out there is what I used to think myself:" "You have to take them out of society... these are people who can't live in society." "Take them away." "We are nothing to the people out there." "I know, I'm sure of it." "We are worthless." "If we never got out of here, it'd be better for them." "CLAÚDIA RULLIAN 54 YEARS OLD" "THE OLDEST INMATE AT MADRE PELLETIER" "When I was 14, I ran away and came to Porto Alegre." "Can we drop that subject?" "I used to live up there." "In the third cell." "I used to live up there." "I almost starved, I lived under an abandoned house." "Then I started stealing." "Then I got greedy." "Things aren't the way we think they are." "I used to say: "Armed robbery?" "We should have capital punishment in Brazil!" "Murder!" I didn't know, I thought that in a robbery they'd kill... out of sheer evil, or to have pleasure... because they enjoyed it." "That's what I used to think." "But it's not like that." "So, you shouldn't say..." "It's just like that saying..." ""Don't spit in the air, it may fall on your nose", right?" "Just think, today I'm serving time for armed robbery." "I take antidepressants, I take sedatives." "You can't take it "clean faced", just like the young girls say." "You have to." "Nobody serves time without taking medication." "The moment you are arrested, it's all over." "Sometimes you are forced to do certain things." "Any human being does." "I feel like letting it all out..." ""What are you saying?" You can't speak up." "They'll punish you, they'll discipline you." "So, you have to be quiet, turn around and walk away." "And some will shout at you, "Come back here!"" "I feel like going back... grabbing them by the neck and smashing their head on the wall." "But you can't." "That's what I do with them." "I turn and walk away, I let them talk." "This is the first time I am in jail." "The second time I was with my son." "He was two years old." "He was with me in the nursery for four years and six months." "This is him." "I am here." "I missed seeing my son with his first girlfriend..." "I missed his wedding..." "What I wanted most was to have seen that phase... they go through from boyhood to teenage... when their voice change." "I didn't see any of that." "When it was time for me to enjoy it, I got this big time to serve... that messed up my whole life." "Jail has only messed up my life." "I didn't learn anything from it." "Of course, you take good things from bad things... but they won't be of any use in the future... because my life is this short now." "You live in a world which is isolated from everything." "It's a place you are isolated from everything and everybody." "If you want to know what's going on in the street... it has to be through a television." "Or somebody who comes visit and talk to you." "But that's rare." "It's so hard when you wake up in a prison cell... when the night falls, to see winter coming..." "I'm 54 years old." "28 of them spent in jail." "There's a letter here." "It's days, weeks, months, years... you have no idea when you're going out." "It's a habit, it all becomes a habit." "A habit you just don't get used to... you rather adapt to it." "It's even..." "It's so strange, when you're about to get rid of it... you can't let go of it, you know?" "I don't know how to explain it." "You spend so much time in jail... then you're crazy, crazy to get away... to be free." "But when this freedom comes... you're so wrapped up in this closed world... you feel bad just to think of getting out." "Hey, Magda!" " I love you, dear!" " I love you too!" "Nothing will keep us apart, don't you worry!" "I'll take you out of there, my baby!" "Why am I in jail?" "Because of one holdup." "Not one, two holdups." "BETÂNIA FONTOURA DA SILVA 28 YEARS OLD" "SENTENCE: 15 YEARS" "When I got here, first I went to the gallery... to Gallery E, for prisoners with pending sentences." "When I was convicted, I went to Gallery D." "Then, after that, I was in many hearings because... because of my children, right?" "I have four children." "When I first got here... some eight months afterwards, they took my daughter away." "That was when I got desperate, I cut myself real bad." "I cut myself several times... that's why it looks that way, it won't close." "Look at the scars." "All that anguish, that pain inside just disappeared, you know?" "All I felt was the cut." "The things we do with our body..." "It's a reason, isn't it?" "I used to think that, if I went to see a psychiatrist..." "I would stay longer in here... because they would think that I was crazy or something." "Then, one day, I just couldn't stand it..." "I was so nervous, and I went talk to her... then she started my medication, and I started to get calmer." "Betânia!" "Betânia and Leonice!" "I think there's nobody else." "Okay." "Have a nice day." "Okay, Therezinha." "Have a nice day." "This cell I'm in now, it's just me and my mate." "She and I, we got along really well." "Come on, right?" "I don't have to hide it..." "I'm having an affair with a woman." "This one who lives with me." "There." "Well, men..." "Look, if I can speak frankly... men don't respect you." "They don't care if you're sick... they don't care if you're in pain... men... you know what I mean, right?" "But a woman understands you... women are nice to us." "Now, when I'm out there..." "I don't know what's gonna happen." "Sometimes, we go out full of plans... but we just don't know." "Living in jail is one thing, but..." "Now, I don't want any men after I leave, that's for sure!" "Nevermore." "Hey, Magda!" "Listen, Magda!" " Did you worked today?" " I went to work today!" "I bought milk for our children, my love!" " What?" " I bought milk for our children!" "They're at home with my mother." " Bring some food from home!" " Okay." " I'm starving in here!" " You have to make an effort and start eating!" " What?" "You have to make an effort and start eating!" "Right." "I've been here since Tuesday... accused of murdering my own son." "But now I'm appealing... to try to prove it wasn't me who killed him." "DANIELA CABRAL 19 YEARS OLD" "FIRST-TIME OFFENDER" "They took me to the selection, they told me to wait in there... before going up to the gallery." "I didn't go up to the gallery because the other prisoners... don't accept this kind of crime." "If they know it, they'll come to me... they will, I don't know, they'll even want to kill me." "Because I can't prove I didn't do it." "They think I did." "But they don't know there's a pregnant woman here... who did that." "They ask me, "Why didn't you go up yet?"" "Then you have to deceive them." "I'd ask you not to tell them anything." "God forbid!" "But, no, I'm not going up." "I don't think I'm going up." "I'll get out before that." "I'll get out before." "ONE WEEK LATER" "I just want to get out of here, because I am not guilty." "I just..." "A prisoner who has committed a crime against a child... when she gets here, it's an awful thing." "Just like this pregnant girl." "When they hear about that in the gallery, they shout..." ""We're gonna get your womb out with a broom handle!"" "She is pregnant." "I can't sleep, because they keep passing by... offending me, my head is about to explode... and I didn't do it, I know I didn't!" "Nobody knows what I'm going through!" "My mother won't even see me, because she thinks I did all this!" "Surprised?" "You don't know what happens in here." "They pass by and say, "Murderer!" "You killed the baby!"" "I know I'm not that." "There's an inmate in the gallery who's very aggressive... and she wants to attack the one who lives with me." "I said..." ""Don't even try that." "Don't do that to her, or else you'll have a problem with me." "Because you'll be disrespecting the cell I live in." "And my cell, as long as I'm in jail... living in this cell, it is my home." "Just like the cell you live in is your home." "Don't fool yourself... because as long as we are in here, this is our home." "Whether you like it or not, it is. "" "One day, of course, we'll go to our home outside these walls... but while we're here, this is our home." "BRAZILIAN PENAL SYSTEM" "DETERMINES THREE KINDS OF SENTENCE:" "CLOSED" "SEMI-OPEN" "AND OPEN REGIMES" "AFTER SERVING 1/6 OF THE SENTENCE" "THE PRISONER CAN GO TO SEMI-OPEN REGIME" "Betânia!" "AFTER 2 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS IN JAIL" "BETÂNIA IS TRANSFERRED TO SEMI-OPEN REGIME." "Betânia!" "Is she packing already?" "At the same time, you want to go, but... something keeps you in here, you know?" "She keeps me in here." "I'm a little happy, a little sad." "If I could postpone my departure, I would." "Leonice, Betânia!" " Are you leaving?" " Are you leaving?" " That's great!" " She's going out." "Semi-open, Betânia?" "That's as far as you can go." "WOMEN'S MINIMUM-SECURITY FACILITY" "Cris, which bed is available here?" "None." " There's no place here." " The other room's also full." "I don't want to go that facility because there I'd have to live... with a bunch of 17, 20-year-old girls." "They drink booze, they take drugs..." "And I've never enjoyed..." ""getting high", as they say." "I've never liked this kind of thing... so I won't be doing this now that I'm old, right?" "So, I don't want to..." "And people there remind me of... selection." "Because, if I go to semi-open and they steal my things, as they do... they steal, they do all kinds of dirty tricks..." "I will fight." "I know myself, I'll face up to them." "The first time I saw Mrs. Cláudia..." "I don't know if I told you, I was afraid of her." "I was talking to the psychologist, in a room down here... then somebody opened the door... and right then she came towards me... you know, to hug me, and I got scared..." "I kept looking at her hands to check for anything... that could hurt me, cut me." "Then she told me, "Daniela, don't go to the door hatch." "If they call you, saying it's an agent... don't go near the hatch. "" "Because they can throw hot water at her." "They threatened to do that when she was in the nursery... they said they'd throw hot water, and they do... and told her never to leave cell without an agent escorting her." "She told me that, if they come... that, in jail, I have to defend myself." "You know?" "That I can't show fear... otherwise they'll come at me all the time." "That I have to defend myself, that I have to learn to defend myself... because she came to jail when she was 17." "And she knew how to do that... and she's never had a scratch, nothing." "Well, I went to the warden to ask them, for Christ's sake... to protect her, you know?" "Then she asked me, "Do you want to adopt her until you leave?"" "And I said, "I do"." "Then I asked them, "Where does she live?"" ""Oh, she lives in the gallery, and so and so. "" "I didn't want to go." "And they said, "No, it's gonna be better for you there... nobody's gonna hurt you, because they respect her. "" "Then I packed my things and went upstairs." "I talked to all the girls in the gallery..." "I let them know she was coming here." "She's being a mother to me, really... a mother I didn't have out there, or in here... and now I've found her." "If I think something is wrong, I speak my mind." "It's a jail." "I've been here many years, I know." "She's new here, she doesn't know anything about jails." "She must thank God... to have found someone to help her." "Because otherwise I don't know what her life would be like... maybe like others who have been here... who are in the insane asylum." "Others are contaminated." "She was lucky." "And some girls will criticize..." "I am severe." "She can go to the door to have her breakfast... and her afternoon snack." "It's from the bottle everyone's taking... there's no risk for her, you know?" "I just bring her lunch, soup and dinner... because I don't want to see a homicide inside here." "They can easily poison her." "While I'm taking care of her, that's what I'll do." "GOD" "CHRISTIAN FAITH FUNDAMENTALS" "She doesn't judge you." "Whether you're guilty or innocent, it doesn't matter... she'll protect you all the same." "Because everyone's here did something wrong." "I feel good when I can help." "I wish I didn't have to, I wish such things never happened." "But, since they happen..." "And I hope she learns something." "The baby is due soon." "I had the baby at 6:35." "But it was good, it was all right." "The baby weighs 7,4 pounds." "Really big one." "I don't know if he's still in the hospital or in child protection." "He'll have to be there until he's three months old... so I'll have a position as to my hearings." "I think... all this time that I'm in here..." "It's tough." "It's gonna be hard now with the poison, you know?" "Now that she's had the baby, that she's no longer pregnant." "It's gonna be hard." "She has a hearing on Monday." "If she's not our of here, it's gonna be hard." "I'm going away, you know." "CLÁUDIA RULLIAN IS NOTIFIED TO GO TO SEMI-OPEN REGIME" "I heard from the lawyer and the warden... and the judge, that I'll have a room just for me." "Now there's nothing to keep me from going away." "I'm dying to leave." "I just don't want to be in the sun." "No, I dread the sun." "I haven't sunbathed in years." "Gives me a headache." "Do I have to go today?" "Yes, you have to go today." "Don't worry, everything's gonna be all right." "You were expecting this, weren't you?" "No, not today." "Mrs. Valquíria said not today... she told me next week, she said it today." "She thought it was gonna be next week." "Okay." "I'll face this one more." "Well..." "Thanks for everything." "Take care of Daniela and Carla." " All right." "Grab the television peg." "Get the plastic..." "Where's that plastic bag?" "Dear, you be quiet." "You must rest." "No, it goes inside." "Put the bag here." "Here!" "Get the aerial, Daniela." "Help me." "Hey, Ivone." "Bye, Daniela." "I'll ask the judge for a permit, all right?" "Don't worry, because you're taken care of, okay?" " Please help me get out of here!" "I will help you." "I love you so much, as if you were my mother!" "I love you so much!" "Don't you cry, okay?" "I'll ask the judge for a permit to come and see you and I'll talk to your mother." " Okay." "I won't abandon you." "Be sure to eat properly." "Okay?" " Bye." " Bye." "What's up?" "Hi!" "What's up, Jose?" "Are you all right?" "Hi!" " You can leave it here." " Right..." "That's nice!" "I'll say goodbye to you from the window, okay?" "I think..." "I don't think, I like the place." "It looks like a house." "I thought it was gonna be worse, but..." "I like it." "I don't know." "My God, I feel like going back to the jail!" "BETÂNIA, AFTER A WEEK IN SEMI-OPEN REGIME" "I think I was getting used to that." "Sometimes I miss that place, I wish I could go back there." "But not through some crime, you know?" "Maybe I could ask the judge... if he can let me serve my semi-open regime in there." "These girls listen to music... really loud, I can't sleep with all that noise." "Not even with a radio at a low volume." "They'll go to sleep at 2 or 3 AM." "Then, the next day we have to get up early." "They stole ten bucks from a girl." "And any amount of money... if they steal from us, it's money we could use." "But this is the semi-open regime... they can't do anything, the house can't do anything." "You think you can search everyone?" "Then the girls will beat you up." "For everything you have to wait." "I asked permission to go to my aunt Ziza's for a couple of days." "So that I can clean some houses with her... in a couple of days I can get a good money... because she cleans two houses a day, you know?" "It's 30 bucks each." "That's why I thought about escaping." "The door is locked, but look how big this window is." "It stays open." "And the gate is open." "It's an invitation." "But it hasn't even crossed my mind..." "I want to serve my time." "I have nine more years here." "It's a long time, but since I served all those years inside... it's gonna be a lot easier out here." "I'm getting rid of all those things... that I had, you know?" "Because of the space I have here." "If it was inside, it's too many people together." "I saw the front and the back." "I wouldn't live there." "I would've gone away." "Would you like to come inside and see my room?" " Yes, we would." " Then come this way." "It's small, but it's cozy." "I like being alone." "I was supposed to go downtown, but I didn't have the courage." "To go to the market." "I haven't taken a bus yet." "I haven't had the courage." "Let's see how I feel tomorrow." "TOMORROW" " It's big, isn't it?" " Yes, this side is a little..." "I need to buy me glasses." " This one goes there?" " Yeah." "So they planted flowers in the?" "It's beautiful, isn't it?" "Is there a place near here where I can buy some hair dye?" "Where they sell... hair dye?" "One's cream, the other's liquid." "What's the difference?" "Just the brand." " We have..." " No, I want Henna." "It's this one." " How much is that?" " $14.30." "Did you hear her saying, "Who is she?" "Who is she?"" "If only she knew!" "Right?" "How much is the olive?" "$5." "$5, this green one." "The stuffed one, $9.80." "$9.90 the Chilean one." "The Portuguese one, $9." "Can we go away?" "I'm not feeling well here." "Let's get the bus to go home?" "All right?" "Where?" "Where?" "Over there." "There's a bus stop there on the corner, ask there." "At the market?" "There was no bus to Teresópolis leaving the market." "Thank you very much." "I don't believe it." "These guys are like this." "I was misdirected all the time." "And you let me." "It's this side here." " Do you see that bus over there?" " Yeah." "Just take it." "Bus 262." "It was good going out with you." "I was gonna face it all alone." "At least, now I know how to go... and how to come back." "I won't get..." "I got lost today." "I didn't know the bus had changed... that the route was so long." "Everything's changed." "All this time, everything's changed." "That guy told me, on the street..." ""It hasn't changed anything for six years. "" "And I said, "But it's been 17... " It has changed a lot." "Everything has." "I need to go to the dentist, I need to go to the doctor..." "I need... so many things!" "But it's gonna be hard." "The psychologist will go with me to my son's house." "She has been there." "I'm not used to that anymore." "I had a headache, I got tired." "I think I'll sleep tonight." "That's why the young escape." "It's bad going out on the street." "And having to come back." "I want to fax you a return from the Women's Facility." "It's Betânia Fontoura da Silva, okay?" "I went out with my aunt, I needed to get my paper." "My birth certificate." "Then I went to work with her." "Because she paid for my birth certificate, it cost $9.10... the price is on the certificate." "Then I went to work with her to get the money, right?" "To pay for my certificate, because I had no money." "And I didn't go back." "The semi-open regime is very bad." "It's being hard to serve time there." "If she's not back... any day now, who knows, she'll be captured by the police." "Or she'll turn herself in." "Then, if she turns herself in after 72 hours... she's sent to Pelletier." "But I will go back." "I'm not exactly a fugitive." "Anyone there can do it." "That's what you do." "I think every prisoner has the right to escape." "Because human beings are not meant to live encaged, right?" "And I think everyone wants freedom." "Would you be able?" "If you were in jail... wouldn't you try to escape one day?" "I'm not gonna escape." "You can be sure I'm going back in." "Do you still refuse to go out with men?" "I do." "For the time being." "No, it's not that I refuse..." "I'm kind of changing..." "I've changed my mind." "No, but I still say men are no good... now, for a..." "I won't say "no"." "But to have a serious relationship... to live together and stuff, for that men are no good." "They are still no good." "You see, baby?" " You see, Magda!" " What?" "Tell her you're powerful too." " What?" " You are beautiful!" "I'm saying you are beautiful!" "Tomorrow you'll be beautiful in the yard, right?" "Speak louder!" "Tomorrow you'll be beautiful in the yard, won't you?" "I want to see you looking pretty in the yard!" "I will." " I'm painting my nails." " Right." "Have your nails manicured too!" "Hear me?" " Hear me, love?" " What?" "Have your nails manicured too!" "She embarrasses me!" "I have met another boy." "A man." "18 DAYS OF ESCAPE" "No, I'll turn myself in on Monday." "It's no use being a fugitive." "Because my time will get longer, this month... it's been 18 days today that I'm on the street... these 18 days will be added to my time, you know." "I have ten more years to go." "I doubt that I will... until I serve all my time." "1 MONTH AND 7 DAYS OF ESCAPE" "Well, I'm not doing anything that will get me in jail again." "And, you know, if I turn myself in in the semi-open regime..." "I'll go to closed regime again." "And I won't go back there." "Several times I felt like doing something again... robbing someone, robbing some company, some shop... you know, not that I wanted to, because I felt like it... to be in the action, stealing again." "No, it's because I needed." "Sometimes you feel like doing it." "And you know that nobody will hire you." "Paquetá is a place we go for a swim, to have a beer... and there's live music." "We'll go there on Sunday." "I'm wearing a skirt!" "I met a boy." "We stayed together here, we danced, we had a party, you know?" "Then he cheated on me, and we had a fight." "Now I'm with somebody else." "Now... now, I'm with somebody else." "No." "I'm not talking now." "Some more days and I'll call you, so you can visit my house." "Wait just a little longer." "1 MONTH AND 16 DAYS OF ESCAPE" "But I told him I didn't want to get serious... because I like to have fun, to go out, have a good time..." "But, then I told him I would think about it... and make up my mind, you know?" "It's not like..." "Then we stop to think and we realize... that's not what we want." "Not for now." "I still have this semi-open regime pending, I can't." "Today, I got a work permit." "I leave at 8 AM and come back at 7 PM." "I'm making bread, pastries and sweets... and I'm also buying things on the street." "And it's great to me, you know why?" "Because I couldn't separate myself from them all of a sudden." "Today I got there with my hair untied." "Everyday, you know?" "Only Saturday I was locked." "They said, "Oh my, you look so different!"" "It changes you a little, right?" "The other day, in the cell... you asked me what I had learned all these years." "I said "nothing", right?" "Jail has only messed up my life." "I learned nothing from it." "I had nothing in my head, I was worried." "I have learned a lot." "I have even learned to see in people... when they are good or bad." "I have learned to survived on very little." "I have learned many things." "Many." "Take care." "You were like a mother to me." " May God go with you." " I won't forget you." "I went to see Daniela." "I'm worried about her." "She's anxious." "And Daniela is getting sick." "I think Daniela will end up in the insane asylum." "Her head is really messed up." "Today, she sent me a letter." "She's not well." ""Cláudia Rullian... forgive me for yesterday." "Please, Cláudia..." "I beg you, please... look for my mother... and help her get me out of this place." "For since... since you went away... from the gallery, everything's changed." "I ask you not to tell... agent Ana... that I wrote to you." "Please... you are a mother to me." "Help me please." "Hugs and kisses, Daniela. "" "I don't what will happen to this girl." "I try to help from out here, but it's been hard." "I would like to ask you something." "Go talk to Daniela." "Today or tomorrow, I don't know." "Her situation is not good." "Go see her." "The worst thing is when you wake up... you think you are home, but then you wake up... and then you realize you're jail." "Then... you get sad." "But it's not like they say out there... like, "Oh, God forbid!", and this and that..." "A jail is not that bad." "At least this one isn't." "We have an afternoon snack, the others jails don't." "Last week, my mother was prepared to come... but when time came, she didn't want to... she doesn't have the courage, she doesn't know how she'll react... when she sees me in jail." "My grandma comes sometimes." "I even asked her not to come... because she has to take the bus in a dangerous neighborhood... and I don't want her to come alone." "On the 14th it's gonna be three months." "Three months already." "Time..." "Time flies when you're in jail!" "Out there it drags itself away!" "Now I'm ready for anything even be convicted for that." "If I'm convicted, that's okay." "I'm already used to being locked up." "Something in my heart tells me I'm not going back to that place." "3 MONTHS AND 26 DAYS OF ESCAPE" "I met Adair, the settler man I told you about." "It didn't work out." "Then I started dating another man and we started living... no living... he would come to my house, but he was married and... he told me he was alone, you know?" "Then we had a fight too, and I dumped him." "That was when I met this guy, Renato, and... it happened." "On the 23rd we'll have been one month living together." "I LOVE YOU" "It's great, because I'm happy that I've found the right person... that I've forgotten the past, you know?" "And... with him, I want to start over, have a life." "I know that 6:20, 6:25, 6:30 at the latest..." "I'll have someone to talk to, you know?" "If I want to go over my aunt's house, I can go." "I can drink "chimarrão" with my sister-in-law... we can talk." "You know, you can't compare it to living in jail." "God forbid!" "Well, I met Betânia when I came to live with my father." "It was on a Sunday, and it was kinda strange... because she was a little drunk." "Then, you know, time was passing... we stayed together..." "and it happened." "I said it was just for one night..." "We're still here." "But the questions you ask me!" "What do you most enjoy doing together?" "We?" "We've been together for a month, we're getting to know each other." "We like going to her grandmother's." "Having sex." "Future?" "I can't decide anything." "Each person has his own opinion." "I have my opinion, she has hers." "She thinks we won't be together for a long time." "You have to let the future run its course to see where it leads." "9 MONTHS LATER" "Going into jail was really hard." "But not as hard... as... now, going away." "You know, it's so hard to live righteously... to be in the right path, doing the right thing!" "It's difficult." "Very difficult." "I think, "I work, I work, I need to get it..." "I need to win"." "I want to, before I die, I want to achieve... something good." "And I haven't succeeded." "I haven't." "When I think I'll get it, it all falls apart." "AFTER A YEAR IN THE SEMI-OPEN REGIME" "CLÁUDIA RULLIAN HAS TO OUIT HER JOB IN THE PENITENTIARY BAKERY." "I think it's gonna take some time... before I am what I use to be." "CLÁUDIA RULLIAN VISITS AN OLD FRIEND" "TO GET PHOTOGRAPHS OF HER SON..." "I have a photo album." "Now, where is it?" "Wait just a second, I'm gonna see if it's in a bag I have here." "I know I put it somewhere, but I don't remember where." "I have everything in bags." "Look, Cláudia, you can take this one... because it's small." "What is it?" "Serginho." "I have that big album, but where is it?" "He is a man now, but for me he'll always be that child." "Do you know, when I was arrested, how tall he was, how old he was?" "He would go to school with a backpack." "And, when I see a boy like him..." "I can't look the other way, I have to see that child's face." "I'm still looking for that child." "But this child has grown up... he is a man, he has a son, he has a wife." "What a shame, my God!" "Poor Cláudia!" "The other day, I found one of those cards that you made... and I said, "Such talented hands!"" "This girl has talents, she could have done anything... she could have a nice life, but she did wrong now look at her." " I know." "This girls has talented hands!" "She can do anything." "Remember those cards you did?" "I told them I don't know why, but that was the life I've had..." "Call me, visit me, Claudinha." "You can come visit me..." "I'll visit you whenever you need me..." "I'll visit you, because I'm the same person..." "I am a human being, just like you are a human being." "I am a human being." "Human beings must be respected." " I'll call you before, okay?" " You do that." "Bye." " Bye." "Go with God." " God be with you." " God bless you, my daughter." " Open it so I can come back." "I get sad because I really want my son Jonas with me." "But I'm afraid of going back to jail... and then he'll suffer everything again, and so will I." "I know that one of these days..." "They stopped me several times." "It was cold, I was wearing pants, a jacket, a bonnet and gloves." "Then the police came and said, "Hey, man!"" "The policeman told me..." ""Hey you, man!" "Be quiet, hands up, this is the police!"" "And I told him, "Please, mister, I'm a woman. "" "And they said, "Gosh!" "We thought it was someone... who was gonna rob the supermarket." "You can go home, then. "" "And then I couldn't climb on my bicycle!" "I just couldn't climb it, my legs were shaking... you should see it!" "I thought I was gonna fall, I just couldn't ride it..." "I had to push the bicycle home!" "That's how scared I got." "I receive a lot of letters, I write a lot of letters... but I don't waste my time writing... what I write for one, I write for the others." "I write for everybody, because who knows if they don't get letters... from many women, too, you know, and laugh at us." "That's what I think, I write to many guys." "Then I think, "This fool writes just for me!"" "Look at this drawing, it's so beautiful." "I'm gonna read you this one." ""Dani, the wisdom from our soul teach us how to see... beyond the appearances of things... and go straight to the real meaning of each event... in God's universe." "Love, Milton. "" "Yeah, when they go to jail, they turn into poets!" "And look what he sent me, the crazy guy." "I don't know where he saw me." ""I love you, I love you", he's so full of love!" "I think he wrote "Daniela" in here some 18 times!" "And he wrote that..." "Do you want me to read it?" "Just a small part for you." "Just for you to see how crazy he is." "Wanna see it?" "And I had sent him a very insolent letter." "And he sent me another one, saying he was in love." "Here." ""I don't know..." "I'm very rich, I have a two-floor house... a car, a market, money in the bank." "I have 16 employees, I pay 500 'reais' to each of them." "Daniela, I'm waiting for your answer. "" "So you see the liar he is." "He's crazy." "And I write to him:" ""Look, I'm not writing to anyone, I'm only corresponding to you. "" "Mrs. Roli gets mad with me, but..." "I have a date tomorrow." "Tomorrow, this one will come." "I haven't met him, I haven't seen even a picture." "But I have already a plan with the agents here..." "I'm talking to him, but if he's ugly, I'm gonna faint... don't take me to the hospital, it's just an act... you just take me back to my cell, 'cause I'm fine!" "God forbid!" "I'll never fall in love again in this life." "Only for my son." "My mother went to see him." "I thought about turning myself in and bringing Jonas here... but I'd rather do it when I'm old... that they catch me." "Because then Jonas will be older... he'll be a grown up." "I don't feel like going out on the street..." "I don't feel like doing things I used to do before." "That desire to go out, when we get here... to do the things we do out there... 'cause I'm 19, I have my whole life ahead of me... go to party with friends and all that... and I don't feel like doing that." "The only thing that makes me sad is not being out there for Christmas... and New Year's Eve." "The only thing that'll make me sad." "As for all the rest, I'm fine." "I have everything I need here." "I'm fine." "Sometimes I think..." ""Gee, I wish I was 18 years old now... with the same experience I have now being 54."" "But you can't go back in time." "I think, I like a beautiful house, all well decorated." "At the same time, I think, "Soon I'm gonna die, soon... "" "I don't have that much time." "That's bad." "My son said..." "My son didn't recognize me." "My son did like that on my face, with his hands... and he said, "Mother, you're so old, so full of wrinkles... you're so old!"" "I know that I have aged." "But many things passed in my life and I didn't see them." "I was locked away." "What can you do?" "Who knows, in the next life..." "I do better things." "BETÂNIA IS STILL A FUGITIVE" "HER SON IS BACK LIVING WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER" "SHE DUMPED HER BOYFRIEND BECAUSE "MEN ARE NO GOOD"" "DANIELA WAS TRANSFERRED TO AN INSANE ASYLUM" "SHE'S UNDER A SECURITY MEASURE" "CLÁUDIA RULLIAN SAYS SHE NO LONGER WANTS TO ESCAPE" "HER BIGGEST DESIRE IS TO BE ACCEPTED BY HER SON" "Hey, Magda!" "I'm going now!" "Get out the window 'cause I'm leaving!" "Hear me?" "I'm going now, tomorrow I'll be here early." "Bye!" "I'm going now to sleep!" "By, love."