Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.
Marcélia Cartaxo
as Macabéa
José Dumont
as Olímpico de Jesus
Tamara Taxman
as Glória
Fernanda Montenegro
as Madame Carlota
Umberto Magnani
as Seu Raimundo
Denoy de Oliveira
as Pereira
Lizette Negreiros
as Maria
Sônia Guedes
as Joana
Carlos Cambraia
as
Cleide Queiroz
as
Ednaldo Freire
as
Elza Gonçalves
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