The town of Salvador, in Bahia, alive with the charm of the 1950’s, is enduring a wave of robberies. A gang of street kids known as “Captains of the Sands” are hunted like common criminals. As we draw closer, we see that they are just children, almost a hundred of them, completely abandoned. But they won’t be children for long: by the end of this odyssey, many will have become men.

A year in the lives of these boys. A year in which they will live incredible adventures, be heroes and mere mortals, fly like birds, have the most wonderful dreams, visit hell, discover sex, death, freedom! This is the plot of the film “Captains of the Sands”, adapted from the novel of the same name by Jorge Amado, one of the author’s bestselling books (over 100 editions and five million copies worldwide).

The novel, with its fascinating plot, has a very visual and poetic narrative, with complex, profound characters, describing wonderful locations, suggesting dialogues, songs, moods, as if written for the cinema and deserving an adaptation to do it justice.

Numerous young people from generation to generation dream of the image of the Captains of the Sands running across the beaches of Salvador. This film, an ambicious production by Lagoa Cultural, will project the dream onto big theater screens everywhere, using strong colors to paint a panel of 1950s Bahia: a modern portrayal of an era whose themes remain highly relevant to this day.