A quartet of kidnappers make the mistake of hiring Da Silva as their driver
Chico Xavier needs cash. His father has cut off his allowance, and for a university student with expensive tasteand an even more expensive girlfriendthis is a death sentence. And so he and his friends arrange to kidnap one of their school chums: a fellow dilettante who lets himself be taken in exchange for a cut of the ransom. Two days of criminal behavior, Chico thinks, and they'll all live happily ever afteror die in the Rio sand.