by Eleanor Mannikka
synopsis
In a comedy that alternately enjoys and sends up the beliefs and superstitions of a rural population, Quim (Adilson Barros) is a peasant living in the boondocks whose desire to eat meat has been unfulfilled all his life but whose desire to get married is brought to fruition by the trickery of Carula (Fernanda Torres) who promises him a (non-existent) family ox in exchange for matrimony. Quim adjusts to marriage, no matter how it came about and then gets some cash from an unlikely source and heads off to Sao Paulo to look for meat. Once there, his lifelong ambition has an odd way of being realized -- but then, the modern world has all sorts of things that Quim has yet to discover.
