: For decades, Xuxa actively sought to block the film’s distribution to protect her public image, paying annual fees for the rights and winning injunctions to remove copies from stores. Recent Shift

The story is told through the fragmented memories of a man named Hugo. Returning to his childhood home, he recalls a pivotal period in 1937 when he was just 12 years old.

Beneath the taboo surface, the film is a sharp critique of Brazil’s authoritarian past. The mansion is a microcosm of the dictatorship: pleasure, power, and the exploitation of the innocent. Hugo represents a nation being corrupted before it can grow up.