This is a love letter to São Paulo’s East Side, where I was born and raised. Its hoods (or quebradas, as we say) deeply shaped Brazilian hip-hop culture and, in turn, shaped who I am as a person and as an artist. When I chose filmmaking, I committed to reclaiming this territory through a new lens. By blending animation with live-action, the film affirms our right to sensitivity, beauty, and subjectivity, confronting and dismantling the limiting stereotypes historically imposed on Black lives in Brazilian cinema through a love letter to my childhood and people.