Last Stop 174 (2008)

From the writer of the ground-breaking City of God comes this fast-paced drama, set on the crime-ridden streets of Rio de Janeiro.

Street kid Sandro is bringing himself up on the violent streets of Rio's favelas. When he survives the brutal 1993 massacre of homeless children at the Candelária Church, his life is changed forever. Trying to negotiate this dangerous world of drugs and blood without family or education, Sandro reunites with an acquaintance, Alessandro, in a juvenile correctional facility at the age of 17. Teaming up to break out of the prison, they are soon fast friends, but when a seductive young woman threatens to tear them apart, Sandro sinks deeper and deeper into the quicksand of drug use and paranoia, until fate takes him down a cruel and destructive path...