Romao feels that it is his fate to be allowed to earn a thousand real a month, amount he needs to maintain his wife Rose and five children. Obsessed by this idea, the family sets off on four bicycles to travel 3200 kilometres in the unknown backwaters of Brazil.

A young family sets out on an arduous journey across the vast landscapes of Brazil in this poignant coming-of-age tale. Echoing Y tu mamá también and the neorealist classic The Bicycle Thieves, director Vicente Amorim mounts an evocative examination of hardship and resilience.