by Clarke Fountain
synopsis
This Brazilian romantic drama is told in two episodes, each based on a separate story by Rubem Fonseca. In the first episode, Lucia, a young girl, is wild about contemporary music and poetry books. The music she loves best is from The Beatles, which is why she calls herself McCartney. Her need for ever more records and books proves beyond her means, and she decides to earn what she needs in a brothel. In the second episode, a young man wants to try to pay what it will take to release a young woman from her job in a bordello. The girl, of course, is Lucia.
characteristics
- Prostitute/prostitution
- Streetwalker
- Whore
- Music
- Love
- Courtesan
- Girl
- Hooker
- Call-girl
