CASUAL LIVES

In Recife, northeast of Brazil, life for the street children is extremely precarious. In an effort to avoid abuse and alcoholism at home, they go to the town center, where an even worse type of violence, often fatal, awaits them: the violence of the police. With the Death Squads on their tracks, these children and teenagers will be tortured and killed and their murderers will go unpunished. Confronted with this despair, educator Demetrius Demetrio decided to start fighting against the abuse and the indifference, by trying to give these children the basis for a future. Casual Lives is the answer to the call for help of a man himself threatened by the police. The film is dedicated to the children who only got to know violence, from their first breath to the day of their brutal death.