This movie tells the story of Maria, a girl that is born in the same day Brasília city is inaugurated, April 21 of 1960. Her father was a "candango", how is called the people who built the city. Her mother dies on child-birth. Her father can't find job after the inauguration of the city and goes to the north region of Brazil to build the Transamazonica road. But he doesn't abandon her daughter, instead of it he leaves her with her godfather, a black man that works as chauffeur to a congressman. As the girl Maria grows, different actresses play her role, with highlights to Sthephany Britto, Brazilian new sex symbol, which was just a child, but was already very beautiful. Although the plot is interesting, with a lot of conflicts between the characters, somehow the dialogs are not very natural and often sound a little corny. Some crying scenes, like the one Maria goes to her mother grave, does not touch the viewer, because there is no relation created between Maria and her mother. The movie has good scenes of Brasília, the Brazilian capital, but some characteristics of the early years of the capital weren't truthful, along the time, like the cathedral that was not white, only being painted in the early 90's.
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