Anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro leads us through the paths that made us people and nation. After all, who are the Brazilians? What define us as a people?

The series transforms Darcy Ribeiro's narrative to television language. Each 26-minute long episode discusses the Brazilian upbringing, its mixed origins and the distinct cultural syncretism it originated. Using images from Brazil as a whole, some archive images and statements from Antonio Cândido, Luis Melodia and Antonio Risério, with the special appearance of Chico Buarque and Tom Zé, the series' ten programmes discuss our origins, our history, our themes and issues, our future perspectives.

In 1995, when reading the first chapters of "O Povo Brasileiro" manuscripts, Isa Grinspum Ferraz suggested to Darcy Ribeiro (1922-1997),with whom she had collaborated for 13 years, to tell that story to more people through a television show. Although very ill, he accepted the challenge and for four days became an actor in a great testimonial about Brazilian people's cultural background.