Linha de Passe

Linha de Passe

Life is what you make of it.

2008108 min6.6 / 10

A compassionate, intimate portrait of a working-class family in São Paulo navigating poverty and fractured kinship through the bonds between brothers and their struggling mother.

In the periphery of São Paulo, the pregnant single mother Cleuza works as maid in the apartment of a middle-class family. Each of her sons has a different unknown father: the oldest, Dênis, has a baby son that lives with his mother and he works as motorcycle courier.

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