06 Aug 1996
How Angels are Born
Two children flee together with a grown up from a slum in Rio because this man had problems with the local drug lord. They end up in the house where a rich American citizen lives with his daughter.
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Analu Shilber Maria
Ayomi Domenica Cecília (Psicologa)
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