Jorginho, his white friend Rico, Lici and Paulinho are homeless best friends living in a slum in a hill in Copacabana. They spend their hopeless life playing with kite; trying to survive getting food from the street market or the fishermen; learning how to pickpocket; working on the streets polishing shoes. Rico escaped from an institution in Caxambu that symbolizes hell on Earth for them. When he gets ill, he decides to return to the place because he does not want to die on the streets. 　　译文(2): 乔金霍、他的白人朋友里科、里奇和保利尼奥是无家可归的好朋友，他们住在科帕卡瓦纳一座山上的贫民窟里。他们绝望的一生都在玩风筝; 努力从街市或渔民那里获得食物以求生存; 学习如何扒窃; 在街上擦鞋。Rico 从卡尚布一个象征着地狱的机构逃出来了。当他生病的时候，他决定回到那个地方，因为他不想死在大街上。