Angels of the Sun

“You need to know this story.”

In Northeastern Brazil, twelve-year-old Maria is sold off with the promise of a better life as a housemaid. Instead she is resold and sent to a brothel in the Amazon gold fields, where Saraiva (Antonio Calloni) puts her to work. Rudi Lagemann's film shows how a family's poverty and a trader's profit can meet in the sale of one child.