| And, just like every single one of the millions of Brazilian people unfortunate enough to be from a favela, Melo had longed to get out and help. |
| These people cannot afford to pay the rent, so they invade public and private areas and start a new favela. |
| At the Favela do Moinho one March afternoon, as the rain sheets down in torrents, huge puddles form on the packed earth outside a small community space, the headquarters of the residents' association. |
| There we meet Esther and Friedberg, a German couple who works in a kids house in a favela of Santo Angelo. |
| And once a new favela grows exponentially, it becomes a neighborhood with big social and economic problems. |
| But, like the other kids in the favela, Angelo had also seen the dark side of that life: the arrests, the shoot-outs, the frequent deaths. |
