
At a bar table, old samba singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa tells a young waiter stories about a São Paulo that no longer exists. He fondly remembers the maloca where he lived with Joca and Mato Grosso, their passion for Iracema and other characters eternalized in his sambas, chronicles of a metropolis swallowed up by the voracious appetite of progress.
Adoniran Barbosa

Mato Grosso

Joca

Iracema

Cícero

Pereira

Osório
Mané

Arnesto

Doutor Valdemar

Dona Giulia
Dona da Loja
Diretor da Rádio
Atendente Papelaria
Oficial de Justiça

João
Dito

Beleza
Dorival Mendes
Jorge Amaral