[2] The film is regarded as a classic work of Cinema Marginal, the Brazilian underground filmmaking movement of the 1960s.

[4] Born and raised in the Brazilian slums, Jorge is a burglar of luxury houses in São Paulo.

He baffles the police with his unusual modus operandi, and is nicknamed is "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press.

Wearing a red flashlight he breaks into houses at night, rapes his female victims and has long irreverent conversations with them, makes daring escapes, and then spends the profits of his crimes extravagantly in the decadent Boca do Lixo district.

His criminal exploits are shown in a fragmented manner, voiced over by two narrators in the style of a sensationalistic radio program.