When Max, a down on his luck strip club owner, has his life and livelihood threatened by local gangsters, he turns to his wife's connections for help and hires a hitman to solve the problem once and for all. But before long, Max is blinded by his newfound power and his family finds him spinning off the rails as the body count piles up.
An elegant dinner, which takes place in real time, brings together a group of intellectuals in the early 90s in Sã(📢)o Paulo, Brazil: the hosts are the editor of the country's top news magazine and her husband, the company's lawyer,...