A gritty, hard-hitting account of the war between Brazil’s drug runners and police which exposes the explosive forces underlying this deeply divided society. The film takes viewers into the homes and minds of Rio’s favela dwellers – from ordinary housewives to hardened killers – where children are turned into gun-toting thugs. Armed to the teeth with some of the most sophisticated weaponry in the world, drug dealers engage in pitched battles with brutal, corrupt policemen, whose military style training has made them into ruthless urban combat machines. Interviews with the city’s police chief reveal their true purpose: they are the shock troops in a war designed to crush resistance to a cruel and unjust system. Disturbing and thought provoking film from the directors of City of God, soon to be released by Ster Kinekor Pictures.