Rio de Janeiro police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he tracts a serial killer of taxi-drivers, he also seeks his estranged daughter, Sandra, who he had thrown out of the family home when she adopted a promiscuous teenage lifestyle. Lives intersect when the serial killer, Toninho, a young man of unsavoury connections, befriends Sandra, now an exotic dancer and prostitute living and working in the seamy underside of late 1970s Rio.
| Directing | Bruno Barreto | Director |
| Production | Luiz Carlos Barreto | Producer |
| Writing | José Louzeiro | Writer |
| Writing | Leopoldo Serran | Writer |
| Sound | Guto Graça Melo | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Walter Clark | Producer |
| Editing | Raimundo Higino | Editor |
| Camera | Lauro Escorel | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Cacilda Fernandes | Costume Design |
| Production | Luiz Carlos Lacerda | Production Manager |
| Directing | Fábio Barreto | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Angelo Gastal | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Victor Raposeiro | Sound |
| Sound | Jean-Claude Laureux | Sound |
| Production | Lucy Barreto | Executive Producer |
| Production | J.U. Arce | Associate Producer |
| Production | Celso Bulhões de Carvalho | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Bruno Barreto | Camera Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Anísio Medeiros | Costume Design |
| Art | Anísio Medeiros | Art Direction |