Realistic and politically-tinted feature in which improvisation plays a major role, about the people in the Amazon region of Brazil, made in a time when most still thought the Amazon should be reclaimed, trees cut down and roads constructed. The story only reveals itself slowly.Iracema is a 15-year-old Indian girl who pretends to be 21. She doesn’t feel like wearing out her life as other women do: by doing heavy and monotonous work. One day she leaves with a pretentious macho truck-driver, who continuously boasts about the greatness and progress of his own country while himself being active on the black market.The couple attend a procession and sleep together. Iracema finds out that she doesn’t have much to expect from him and then considers becoming a prostitute.
