Fate and peroxide tint José Henrique Fonseca's atmospheric film set on Brazil's besieged city streets. Gazing into a mirror at a salon, Máiquel (brooding and volatile Murilo Benício) glimpses a new personality lurking behind his freshly bleached platinum blonde hair. When Máiquel kills a local criminal, he earns his neighbors' respect and launches his life as an assassin. Breno Silveira's liquid camerawork underscores the mood of decay and corruption in Fonseca's sleek first feature, a potent examination of the forces of destiny, violence, and status.