Three people are looking for clues following the death of Antonio César, a left-wing intellectual and journalist who had been working on an exposé of international business corruption. The three are Antonio's longtime girlfriend; his roommate, who fears that rumors that Antonio died of AIDS mean that he too will contract the disease; and a journalist whose investigation of César's work brings up more questions than answers. Bianchi clearly threw down a political and aesthetic gauntlet with this provocative, kaleidoscopic journey through contemporary Brazil that measures the distance between the radical slogans of the sixties and the grim realities of the eighties. In the film, Antonio César exists mainly as a televisual image, a ghostly presence that continues to haunt these characters and yet seems safely distant and contained-an apt metaphor for the legacy of the sixties in politics, art, and cinema for a generation of Brazilians just awakening to a new democracy.