Hour of the Star

Directed by Suzana Amaral

With Marcélia Cartaxo, José Dumont, Tamara Taxman, Fernanda Montenegro and Umberto Magnani

Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.