Baby

São Paulo’s streets can offer danger or opportunity, and for Baby, a young gay man carving out his own existence, they deliver both.

After being released from a juvenile detention centre, 18-year-old Wellington (Baby) finds himself alone and adrift on the streets of São Paulo, without any contact from his parents and lacking the resources to rebuild his life. At a porn cinema he encounters Ronaldo, a mature sex worker, who teaches him new ways of surviving. Gradually, their working relationship becomes a tumultuous passion.

The bustling streets of Brazil pulse with dizzying energy, allure, and danger as director Marcelo Caetano captures São Paulo in all its gritty complexity—a place where peril and possibility collide, fortunes turn in a split second, and an unquenchable thirst for life gleams through the night.