Documentary that puts us in contact with the life of the workers laboring in the charcoal kilns, and follows up on toil, making charcoal in day-to-day life for families in the interior of Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, and Para states. Filmed with no prior script in the style of cinèma verité that characterizes the work of the director, the film introduces statements from the charcoal people who tell their own stories.

      The result is a portrait of the social structure of the poor families in the interior of Brazil. With the support of important organizations such as Conservation International and Unicef, the documentary includes short, objective statements that inform on uses of charcoal after it leaves the forests. Produced as from the Brazilian forests, involving child, semi-slave labor, the charcoal becomes steel and is incorporated into automobiles and homes.