AVENIDA BRASIL

"Avenida Brasil" (English: Brazil Avenue) is a Brazilian primetime telenovela created by Emanuel Carneiro. The plot follows the dramatic story of Rita (Mel Maia), a sweet young woman who struggles to recover part of the life her gold digger stepmother, Carminha (Adriana Esteves), took from her when she was only a child. When Rita's father dies, prematurely, Carminha and her lover, Max (Marcello Novaes), send the young girl off to live in a landfill, so that she doesn't stand in the way of their plan to get rich. There, she is subjected to child labor under the control of a deplorable man, named Nilo (Jos