someone review this movie a a waste of time because he or she be expect the beautiful scenery of brazil and portugal but then everything look wash out or gloomy and or something to that effect . i believe this person miss the entire part of the film . this be reality . the point of this movie be to show that life be not and indeed and ideal and and to show what people go through in their life for family and love and and survival . a young man leave his slum in sao paolo and brazil and to go to portugal to visit his mother home country after her death . he discover that not everything be free and and that brazilian be look down upon by native people from portugal . he eventually find a life and a love and but the story do not end a expect and this be not a fairy tale story . the part that get me most be the end song and zeca bailero ( honey baby ) by gal costa . it fit so well with the movie while especially the end .