Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
Hermila, a strong willed woman who leaves Sao Paolo with her infant son to return to her home town of Igatu in central Brazil. Igatu is a poor village and life there is simple and uneventful. Hermila moves into her grandmother's house ...