The tragic events that informed Jose Padilha's 2003 documentary BUS 174 serve as the inspiration for this docudrama detailing the events that unfolded when on the morning of June 12 2000 the passengers on a bus traveling through the wealthy Rio de Janeiro district of Jardim Bot''nico were taken hostage by a disturbed young man who had been abandoned by society. Marisa (Cris Vianna) is a drug addict whose baby Alessandro was taken from her by drug dealers after she failed to pay a lingering debt. Later after becoming sober Marisa becomes obsessed with finding her son... and begins searching the local juvenile detention homes. Meanwhile on the outskirts of Rio a young boy named Sandro wanders into his mother's shop to find her lifeless body riddled with knife wounds. Wistfully recalling his mother's promises to take him to Copacabana the grieving boy runs away ultimately falling in with a group of street kids and becoming addicted to drugs. Later Sandro somehow manages to survive the notorious Candelaria massacre only to be locked away in a juvenile detention centre. It's there that Sandro meets Alessandro. When Marisa arrives at the centre in search of her son she mistakes Sandro for Alessandro and tenderly takes the troubled boy under her wing. But Sandro's scars run deeper than Marisa could ever imagine so deep that he believes his only hope for survival is taking a busload of hostages. [show more]
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Based on actual events, previously covered in the 2002 documentary 'Bus 174', this gritty drama traces the events and circumstances that led to an armed siege on a Rio bus in June 2000. After her baby son Allessandro is kidnapped by a drug gang to whom she owes a debt, reformed drug addict Marisa (Chris Vianna) spends her time scouring the juvenile detention homes in search of her son. Meanwhile, in another part of Rio, Sandro do Nascimento (Vitor Carvalho), a young homeless boy, arrives at his mother's shop to find her brutally murdered. After running away and falling in with a group of street kids, Sandro becomes a drug addict, narrowly managing to survive the 1993 massacre of homeless children at Candelaria. When he is sent to a juveline detention centre, he is found by Mariso, who mistakes him for her lost son Alessandro, and takes him into her care. But despite Marisa's best efforts, the now adult Sandro (Michel Gomes)'s despair soon leads him to take a busload of passengers hostage.
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