Viétia Zangrandi

Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis' classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.

The film follows Manuel Maria du Bocage, 18th-century poet, as he travels through the world from orgy to orgy and from excess to excess.