The film has a fantastic casting and looked promising in its very beginning, but, it did not work. The director, who had only directed previously a documentary about the (lack of) role of black actors in Brazilian television, made an interesting choice: in a fictional movie with an almost all-black casting, portraying that problem (interlined with a family melodrama). Unfortunately, his own direction and script led to an unconvincing outcome, lacking strength and in an artificial soap opera style.