After attempting and failing to convince the audience to stop watching, Lorde Cigano pretends to use magic to blow up the TV (it's actually just Salomé overloading a circuit breaker ).

After losing multiple times, he tells Lorde Cigano that he has come from Altamira, which he describes as a new El Dorado, a place of riches where no one can spend their money.

The traveling performer tells the group that the community has no money, and that they pay to watch his films with food, drink, and other odd possessions.

On the drive, Dasdô gives birth, as the group navigates through dense jungle along a long, straight dirt road, littered with dead trees and an amadillo.

Upon arriving at Altamira, they find that the city is actually highly developed and is not rural like they previously believed.

Attempting to earn money, Lorde Cigano has Swallow wrestle another strongman, betting the caravan's truck.

Losing the bet and their means of transport, Lorde Cigano asks Salomé to temporarily prostitute herself, so they can afford to leave Altamira.

Salomé ends up going and having sex with the man, and Ciço states that he will take the bus to Brasília with Dasdô.

Lorde Cigano, however, finally loses his patience with Ciço, and punches him multiple times, knocking him out, and wheels him out and onto the bus.

Ciço hears the sound of a loudspeaker, and goes outside to see a much more modern truck with neon lights, the new "Caravana Rolidey", driven by Salomé with Lorde Cigano in the passenger seat.

It is a region many leave to find work towards the south (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo).

A major theme is the expansion of modern civilization, from the northeast into the west, into the adjacent Amazon jungle.

We see a bulldozer, and television antennae are discussed — into the jungle, building highways, destroying native cultures; the Caravan, while decrying this, is in fact participating in the process.

Once the Caravan takes the Pan-American Highway, recently constructed and still unpaved, they meet native Brazilians in Bolivia.

His elderly father attempts to make conversation about the President of Brazil, as if they were equals, both heads of countries.

[3] The New York Times noted that it was "a most reflective film, nicely acted by its small cast and beautifully though not artily photographed in some remarkable locations.

"[1] The film has been described as a kind of "Seismological documentary … registers the cultural aftershocks of the Brazilian Subcontinent.