CLACS Media Collection

Catalog Information

Born to slaves in the arid wasteland of Northern Brazil and sold by his mother at the age of 7 for a mule, Jao Francisco dos Santos battled all stereotypes on the streets of Lapa, Rio de Janeiro. Here his extrordinary life unfolds against the background of Lapa in the 1930s: an underworld filled with violence and raw desire where desperate dreams spring from poverty and squalor.

---