"The sexy surprise of the Cannes Film Festival! Deliciously sensual with outstanding performances ..."THE TIMESSérgio Machado directs a smouldering tale of raw sexuality, friendship and betrayal set against the backdrop of Brazil's unrepentant street culture. Best friends since childhood, Naldinho (Wagner Moura) and Deco (Lázaro Ramos) offer a young prostitute Karina (Alice Braga) passage to Salvador on their boat in exchange for sex, but when they both develop feelings for their exotic passenger their friendship shatters forcing Karina to confront her own emotions for both men.With an immediate and uncompromising presence, Sérgio Machado's Lower City smoulders across the screen with raw sexuality and an underlying sense of menace. Set against the dark poverty of Salvador's waterfront district, Deco and Naldinho are two childhood friends who scrape together a living running cargo up and down the coast. On a trip back to Salvador, they meet Karina, a young prostitute looking for transport. After some negotiating, the boys offer Karina a ride in return for her services and the three travellers begin the slow trek down the Bahian coast.As the journey progresses, Karina's affections are coveted more and more by the two boys as they begin competing for her attention. Before long the trio become embroiled in a maelstrom of jealously, recrimination and desperation fuelled by a cocktail of drugs, alcohol and sexual ambiguity.

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