Nelson Pereira Dos Santos' recent film continues the new Brazilian cinema's attention to folk culture and contemporary music with a rags-to-riches tale, full of color and delightful humor, of two caipira performers who set out to make it in the chaotic and cut-throat world of pop music. Caipira, though probably the least known of Brazilian music forms here, is an extremely popular genre in Brazil--what Dos Santos calls "frontier music," what we might (somewhat inaccurately) compare to American country music. Writing for the 1982 San Francisco Film Festival, Albert Johnson notes, "Milionario and Jose Rico are splendid personalities as well as singers.... There is so much exuberance and good nature in their performances, and the milieu shown to us, that one longs to dance along this particular street of life with them. This is also Nelson Pereira Dos Santos' first film made in his home town, and perhaps that is why there is a special warmth, and undeniably nostalgic love, in this lyrical triumph."