Synopsis
A family cycles across Brazil looking for a job for the father and a better life for all of them. They start their journey in the hinterland of Paraíba in the poor Northeastern region of the country. The obstinate, illiterate truck driver Romão feels that it is his fate to be allowed to earn a thousand reais a month – a considerable amount by Brazilian standards. Romão needs that amount to maintain his wife Rose and five children, including a rebellious teenager and a baby. Obsessed by this idea, the family sets off on four bicycles. In a period of six months, they travel 3200 kilometres, suffer hunger and thirst, encounter indifference and solidarity and learn strange religious customs and exuberant feasts in the unknown backwaters of Brazil.