This first video in the series is entirely dedicated to the indigenous peoples who inhabited Brazil before the European invasion. It has historical scenes, filmed in black and white during Darcy's months of stay among the Kayapó.
It all starts when Portugal decides to organize a national program to explore the borders of the Unknown. Lusitanian vessels then start to sail to unexplored seas in an adventure whose result will transform world's image.
Black people of the so-called African tropical civilization appear as one of the main aspects of the winged process of building Brazilian society and culture.
The theme in this episode is the ethnic gestation of a new people - the Brazilian people -, constituting a process of permanent , since the first European passed through here.
We call Creole cultural area the historical-cultural configuration resulting from the implementation of the sugar economy and its complements and attachments in the Northeast Brazilian coast, which goes from Rio Grande do Norte to Bahia.
Episode presents several writers and their visions of the Northeast, from the sugarcane, the cattle, the outlaws, the "coronéis", the Sebastianism, the richness of the cultures, the cracked land, the dead animals, the joy of the people.
It tells us about the mixture between Portuguese and the native indians, the bandeirantes, the generals, the gold fever; of subsequent mixing with the Afro matrix, adding Congada, Mozambique and Batuque to an already rich culture.
It begins with the meeting of the Jesuits with the indigenous, in the search for the "Land without Evils", which would end up becoming the Missions. It shows the cultural formation of the Brazilian people in the south of the country.