简介：这部根据真人真事改编，讲述一个12岁的贫民区女孩的苦难生活，深刻揭露当代巴西社会的童妓问题的影片获得了当年加拉马多电影节的七项大奖。 InNortheasternofBrazil,thefatherofthetwelveyearsoldilliterateMariasellshisdaughtertoTadeutobeemployedasahousemaidandhaveabetterlife.However,thegirlisresoldtothefarmerLourencothatdeflowersher,andhegivestheabusedgirltohisteenagersontohavehisfirstsexualexperience.ThensheissenttoabrothelinagoldfieldinAmazonasandexploredhisowner,thedespicableSaraiva.WhenMariaescapestoRiodeJaneiroexpectingabetterlife,sheisexploredbythecáftenVera. In2002,12-year-oldMaria,livingindirepovertywithherfamily,issoldbyherfishermanfathertoprostituterecruiterSeuTadeu,whotakeshertoalow-classbrothelintheAmazonregion.Whileshesuffersinnumerableabuses,Mariaonlythinksofescapingthehorribleconditionsshe'sfacedwith. Maria,a12-year-oldgirl,issoldbyherparents,believingshewasgoingtoworkasamaidatsomerichfamily'shouse.Butthepeoplewhoboughtherhaveotherplans:they'llforcehertoworkatbrothelsallaroundBrazil,asmanypoorgirlsherage.…