Captains of the Sands

Synopsis

A brazilian lord of the flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of bahiaa penguin classicsthey call themselves “captains of the sands, ” a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of bahia. Led by fifteen-year-old “bullet, ” the band—including a crafty liar named “legless, ” the intellectual “professor, ” and the sexually precocious “cat”—pulls off heists and escapades against the right and privileged of brazil.