Beschreibung:
A forty-year-old Brazilian journalist reduced to living in a dilapidated building inhabited by a bizarre human fauna -- fortune-tellers, transvestites, tango-loving Argentinean hustlers -- is called upon to track down and write the story of Dulce Veiga, a famous singer who disappeared twenty years earlier on the eve of her first big show. Thus begins a made race through an underground, nocturnal Sao Paulo among rock bands with eccentric names, feline reincarnations of Vita Sackville-West, ex-revolutionaries turned junkies, gay Pietas, echoes of Afro-Brazilian religions, and intimations of AIDS ...