Pixote

“They can't outrun the law of the weakest.”

Brazil, around 1980, and a youth detention center holds boys the state has little use for. Pixote (Fernando Ramos da Silva) is ten years old and learns that guards beat the boys and police can kill them. After two boys are murdered and the blame is put on Lilica (Jorge Julião), a seventeen-year-old trans hustler, Pixote helps her escape, and Héctor Babenco follows them to the streets, where the small kindness between the youngest boy and Lilica holds.