If you were a ten-year-old boy in 1970 Brazil, you had one thing on your judgment: The
Brazilian football association football team acting in the World Cup. But for young Mauro (Michel
Joelsas), his exhilaration for Pel� is overshadowed by his parents' departure.
In that historic year, the Brazilian population wasn't just united by one the greatest
soccer teams ever assembled. It was likewise dealing with increasingly belligerent activity
by a absolutism eager to arrest whatsoever non-conformists. So while Mauro collects nat
ional squad trading cards and plays out matches with his tabletop soccer game, his
parents