Made after two years of research and three of preparation, No Coração dos Deuses came from a dream of director Geraldo Moraes, who, since his teens, had wanted to film the saga of the bandeirante explorers. The film brings down to us today the story of the explorers who left São Paulo bound for the great hinterland.

     By a whim of fate, one fragment of the route to Martírios, a site discovered by the bandeirante explorers and where there is supposedly much gold, reaches the hands of a boy in a village in our present times. A bizarre group of adventurers decides to follow the Bandeiras trail: an antique dealer, a falifier, a man who lives off odd jobs, a boy, and his uncle who is a professor at the local school.

     The modern bandeirante explorers are pursued by a tribe of Indians and are rescued by an aged woman. She hands them over centuries-old garments and weapons, all of which will take them back to the seventeenth century. Together they will face the Bandeira expeditions of Fernão Dias and Borba Gato, the fearsome Araés Indians, and persecution from soldier invaders.