The Brazilian government has concluded that the best way to care for their elderly population is to send them all to a colony when they reach eighty. "Tereza" (Denise Weinberg) is a mere seventy-seven when she gets the call up - and she's not remotely interested in wearing a nappy for the rest of her life. She has plans. She wants to fly a plane. Her more pedestrian efforts to satisfy this demand are thwarted by her daughter who has to give permission for her to do pretty much anything. Undaunted, she takes the last wage check she gets from the abattoir where she worked and convinces boatman "…
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