in the periphery of são paulo and the very low middle class dysfunctional and hypocrite family of teodoro ( giulio lope ) and cláudia ( leona cavalli ) and the teenager soninha ( sílvia lourenço ) have deep secret . the religious teodoro be indeed a hit man and hire to kill people in the neighborhood with his friend waldomiro ( ailton graça ) . he have a lover and the very devout woman terezinha ( martha meola ) and and he want to regenerate and go to the country with her . cláudia have a young lover and júlio ( ismael de araújo ) and who delivers meat for his father butcher shop . soninha be a common sixteen year old teenager of the periphery and have active sexual life and smoking grass and love heavy metal . when júlio be kill and castrate in their neighborhood and the life of the member of the family change . contra todos be a great low budget brazilian movie that picture the life in the periphery of a big brazilian city . the story be very real and use the usual element of the poor area of the big brazilian city ( drug dealer and hit men and fanatic religious evangelic people and hopeless teenager etc . ) and have many plot point and a surprising end and and the character have excellent performance and act very natural and make the story totally believable . the camera follow the character and give a great dynamic to the film . in the extra of the dvd and the director roberto moreira explains that his screenplay have no line and only the description of the situation and and be partially disclose only one week before the beginning of the shooting . the actor have training in workshop and they use lot of improvisation and be the reason for such natural acting . my vote be eight . title ( brazil ) represent contra todos ( against everybody ) .