An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Fernanda Montenegro
as Isadora "Dora" Teixeira

Vinícius de Oliveira
as Josué Fontenele de Paiva

Marília Pêra
as Irene

Othon Bastos
as César

Otávio Augusto
as Pedrão

Matheus Nachtergaele
as Isaías Paiva

Caio Junqueira
as Moisés Paiva

Stela Freitas
as Yolanda

Maria Menezes
as Waitress

Sergio Kato
as Dora's Client
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“Dora” (Fernanda Montenegro) used to be a school teacher, but now she sits at a table in the station in Rio de Janeiro and writes letters for the illiterate traveller for a few réals a time. She thinks little of a woman and her young son who stop by, except perhaps that he isn’t the most trusting of...