The film, created in exile from 1971 to 1973 between Cuba and Rome, is considered a "semi-finished" work by Glauber Rocha. It has a certain pedagogical character and seeks, through dialectical editing, to conduct a critical review of colonization, class struggle, messianism, and the establishment of populist governments in the Third World. There is a chronology in the events presented, which, supported by extensive iconography (films, engravings, photos, etc.), create "free" associations that allow the viewer a "polyphonic" view of the "History of Brazil."
Jésus Histon
Emilio Garrastazu Médici
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
João Goulart
Jânio Quadros
Juscelino Kubitschek
Getúlio Vargas
Fidel Castro
Che Guevara
John F. Kennedy
Jirges Ristum
Richard Nixon
Arthur da Costa e Silva