Several characters realize their personal way to build their own identity from the choice of genre. Transsexual, transgender, crossdressing – the defining of terminologies different ways of looking at yourself are constantly rising, portraying a universe of possibilities, expanding the boundaries of the possible and permitted.

Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.

While the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric family – a kind of Bonnie & Clyde with kids – trek through the Brazilian interior. Their first aim is to deliver a consignment of weapons to a group of militant nuns who have withdrawn to the jungle, living off the income from their cannabis plantation. The Dadaist approach of poet, theatre and filmmaker Tavinho Teixera, who plays one of the leading roles alongside his daughter Mariah, results in a colourful collage in which political-philosophical reflections, strangulation sex, decadent drinking sprees and an ode to the power of tiger balsam are juxtaposed seamlessly. Background projections, psychedelic visual effects and an eclectic score evoke the experimental film culture of the 1970s, the era with which Sol alegria also shares its basic tone of cheerful nihilism.