The infant son of a wealthy man is kidnapped. A reporter wants to find it and get the reward. At nearly the same time, another baby is taken from its carriage during an absence of its caretaker and, by a coincidence, the reporter is the baby's uncle and lives in the same house. Also coincidentally, the maid at that house is courted by a man who works for the kidnapper of the first baby.
As you may have noticed, the plot is full of coincidences. The film is a near-total disgrace, a disjointed mix of unfunny narrative and musical numbers. The latter are nothing special, although the kind of Brazilian music they show is not unpleasant. The most remarkable thing about the movie is the abundance of racial references in the dialogue and even in one song. The most curious one is perhaps a line by the black male servant about the mixed-race gangster: "when a guy is neither white nor black, beware of him!" This article (in Portuguese) has a commentary about this and another remark by the same character, besides similar ones in other Brazilian movies. Here is an extensive online review (also in Portuguese) which, despite getting the plot appallingly wrong, has some useful information about the actors and singers in the movie.
Rating: 12
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