
At a bar table, old samba singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa tells a young waiter stories about a São Paulo that no longer exists. He fondly remembers the maloca where he lived with Joca and Mato Grosso, their passion for Iracema and other characters eternalized in his sambas, chronicles of a metropolis swallowed up by the voracious appetite of progress.

as Adoniran Barbosa

as Mato Grosso

as Joca

as Iracema

as Cícero

as Pereira

as Osório

as Mané

as Arnesto

as Doutor Valdemar

as Dona Giulia

as Dona da Loja

as Diretor da Rádio

as Atendente Papelaria

as Oficial de Justiça

as João

as Dito

as Beleza

as Dorival Mendes

as Jorge Amaral