The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate revelations, loneliness, dreams...
Direction
Coutinho's invisible presence lets subjects forget the camera exists.
Writing
No script — just life unfolding with devastating accidental poetry.
Director
Eduardo Coutinho
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Copacabana's vertical stratification mirrors Brazil's class pyramid — wealth rises, poverty sinks, literally floor by floor.
Coutinho spent months just visiting before filming, building trust that let residents confess to a stranger what they hid from neighbors they'd lived beside for decades.
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