Based on a true story. In 1988 the pope came to a small town on the Brazil border and the residents set up over 300 stands to capitalize. We follow a family who use all their assets to build a public toilet for the expected crowd. The crowds stayed away so everyone lost their money.
This was meant to be a charming moral lesson on the destructive power of greed...even among the very poor. But the film was badly marred by the protagonist presented as a blustering idiot...like a bad TV sitcom from the 50's (eg. Life of Riley). Idiots do idiotic things...it is their nature and once the story was set up it was obvious it wouldn't end well.
Marginally interesting.
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