Plot

The emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Dora, a dour old woman who hates customers and calls them 'trash,' works at a Rio de Janeiro central station writing and mailing letters for customers. Josue is a 9-year-old boy who never met his father. His mother is sending letters to his father through Dora. When she dies in a car accident, Dora takes Josue on a trip to find his father.—Anonymous

Dora, a retired teacher, spends her days in Rio De Janeiro's Central Station writing, for a fee, letters for illiterate people. One of her customers is killed in an accident, leaving her 9-year-old son Josue to fend for himself. Dora decides to help Josue find a home but this will involve much more than she imagined.—grantss

Dora, a retired teacher who earns money by writing letters for illiterate people in Rio de Janeiro's Central Station, reluctantly goes on a journey through the interior of Brasil to reunite the recently orphan Josué and the father he has never met, after his mother dies being hit by a car.—Nathália

The emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people at Rio de Janeiro's central station, Central do Brasil; and a young boy whose mother has just died in a car accident, to Brazil's remote Northeast to search for the father he never knew.—Fabio Ornelas <fabiornelas@zipmail.com.br>