Gustavo services, with a rubber mallet, the escape of a CG 125, 1978, resulting in crashes that shock as metal in his ears. Give each hammered with the conviction that carries the right profession: mechanical motorcycles.
Notes the street in front of the shop. The sun reflected on the cobbles makes her green eyes tear up. With hand and arm, clean the sweat from his face freckled, still with little hair, the way she saw other mechanics do.
The drought has persisted for forty days in Passo Fundo, in northern Rio Grande do Sul
His boss at the workshop talk on the phone with his brother, who is subversive, say the neighbors. Being hairy motorcycler and Gustavo is also called subversive by their elders. However, it is unknown why the brother of his boss fight to end the military dictatorship. Never saw anything other than generals are chosen by Congress. He was three years old when there was the military coup of 1964. Now, at 17, thinks the profession, and his girlfriend recently bought the motorcycle.
- Head, finished the CG. Can I go?
- Okay, Gustavo. Come tomorrow at half past eight.
Remembrance unnecessary. It is her third month of work in this workshop. Your first job. Always comes before the gates open, even now, in February. The salary of assistant mechanic allows you to pay portions of a Gilera 125 cc, 1972. His father agreed that the purchase, even if the child is underage.
Gustavo connects the shower of the workshop, but no water. Drought creates rationing. Overall exchange of jeans and shirt clean. Premieres on your motorcycle. The roar of the engine seems a laugh that echoes inside the helmet. Will go home and then will meet with Luciane, the girlfriend he met a week ago, in a party of the Motorcyclers Club.
Transits between two buildings of four floors, newly painted and some other impoverished children and decoration, between streets where people stroll, talk and greet each other at the end of late bucolic town far from the beach.
Take a loop around the square in front of Cathedral and passes in front of only two cinemas. On the street morom, beckons Rodrigo, chairman of Motorcyclers Club and childhood friend, who is in front of the appliance store where he works as a salesman. They smile with equal courage of last Saturday, when they were with their girlfriends to the big city nightclub, the big stairway.
Gustav turns the corner, heading for Brazil Avenue.
The veins of his temples throb. Seeing a police ahead. There is a car, a Volkswagen, on the avenue, with police examining documents. Lose the motorcycle, if they know that he is underage. Divert the fifteenth of November. Your engine echoes the sleepy town that evening without clouds.
A siren.
The officers pursued him. Gustavo around the corner. The motorcycle shakes the irregularity of the cobblestone street. The car appears in the mirror. Freia the motorcycle before a slow truck of watermelons. Maneuvering to the right. Heads for home, two blocks away.
The sun dazzles the motorcycler, it feels oily forehead with sweat. Seeing that blinding light, he hears gunfire. His right arm and chest tingle, warm and burning.
Is unbalanced. The motorcycle spins up the sidewalk, knocking him to the other side of the street. Falls almost in front of their parents. His head bounces like a basketball. The sky, before blue-reddens it. Hear the soprano voice of her mother screaming "son." Feel a hug from wife fat and sweaty, rocking him like a baby.
Gustavo knows who came home last.
Chapter 2
Rodrigo, chairman of the Motorcyclers' Club, close the iron curtain of the appliance store where the seller. It is a quarter to six o'clock. He turns to look, once again, people walking in the square in front, as if that move the green and hypnotize.
He feels happy to be working seeing before them two towers of the Cathedral interior appear on the trees, people on the banks of the squares and conversations in the street in this city full of houses. The development is delayed. Just started works to buildings with twelve to twenty floors.
Many residents know each other. Ask the lives of each other, and some gossip about who can speak. Once a semester, come new: students and teachers. Some stay, others move that ends the money, job or course. It is the friendship with the city, which is called the land of passage for some.
Rodrigo, for now, is happy there. He likes the job, girlfriend and Gilera 250 cc, which has. Just hate the prejudice that older riders are - the subversive, as they say.
Lock to lock the shop. Although lowering the temperature in the late afternoon, his brown hair stick to the neck and eyes, the same color, cover up with sweat.
Gustav went from there by motorcycle a few minutes ago.
Mariane, in the corner, talking to Jason, owner of Noble coffee shop. "Rich snob, thinks Rodrigo. Looks away, pretending not to perceive them. It comes in your direction.
- Hi, this is where they sell pretty dolls to flirt with my doll?
- You already have one on offer. As a bonus, has a coffee maker.
- Prefer one that comes a motorcycle in the box. You're for sale?
Kiss. Rodrigo enters his fingers in the long black hair and Mariane. Feels her small breasts and flick your hands on your buttocks firm. Smacks her lips upturned nose, so different from yours, which is hooked.
- Come to my house - says Rodrigo. - I bathe, change clothes, drank coffee and then go to the meeting of the Club for the Hogs.
Mariane smiles, satisfied, as it does every time he makes decisions. Before putting the helmet asks if he can get her to spend the summer in Pine Forest, where are your friends.
- My vacation starts in two weeks only. Until then, we decided - Rodrigo frown.
- It will be great, love. Ever since we started dating, he never went out for travel. Not to mention that this drought is going crazy at all, here in town.
Rodrigo accelerates the motorcycle without saying that could have started the holidays. He did not, because his salary is consumed by benefits of the Gilera and help support her. She lives with her mother. Do not know her father, who died of cirrhosis. Looks borrowed money from a friend to spend the summer. You will feel humiliated if not travel. Also, know that Mariane stopped going to the beach, in January to stay with him.
Her father is a major in the army. When I heard of dating, was the work of Rodrigo. "Understand, young man. Had a daughter, would also want it to love someone better than a seller of trinkets and motorcycler. Soon I will take the Porto Alegre in order to prepare for college entrance. Probably never will see. Ends before that. "
The military fired up and went to Noble coffee shop, where, after lunch, talk with politicians, businessmen and soccer coaches. He smiles and gets patted on the back. If Mariane Rodrigo seen at this time, before going in the cafeteria where he also talks to Gerson, the Major called "catch" and "future son in law."
When he was informed of the comments of Major, by Mariana, Rodrigo felt as if covered in mud.
The pair met for less than a year. She had just graduated high school. Fell in love with that boy who ran dozens of motorcyclers. Rodrigo was reluctant. Did not want to date. Now fears losing it at the end of summer.
Rodrigo, chairman of the Motorcyclers' Club, close the iron curtain of the appliance store where the seller. It is a quarter to six o'clock. He turns to look, once again, people walking in the square in front, as if that move the green and hypnotize.
He feels happy to be working seeing before them two towers of the Cathedral interior appear on the trees, people on the banks of the squares and conversations in the street in this city full of houses. The development is delayed. Just started works to buildings with twelve to twenty floors.
Many residents know each other. Ask the lives of each other, and some gossip about who can speak. Once a semester, come new: students and teachers. Some stay, others move that ends the money, job or course. It is the friendship with the city, which is called the land of passage for some.
Rodrigo, for now, is happy there. He likes the job, girlfriend and Gilera 250 cc, which has. Just hate the prejudice that older riders are - the subversive, as they say.
Lock to lock the shop. Although lowering the temperature in the late afternoon, his brown hair stick to the neck and eyes, the same color, cover up with sweat.
Gustav went from there by motorcycle a few minutes ago.
Mariane, in the corner, talking to Jason, owner of Noble coffee shop. "Rich snob, thinks Rodrigo. Looks away, pretending not to perceive them. It comes in your direction.
- Hi, this is where they sell pretty dolls to flirt with my doll?
- You already have one on offer. As a bonus, has a coffee maker.
- Prefer one that comes a motorcycle in the box. You're for sale?
Kiss. Rodrigo enters his fingers in the long black hair and Mariane. Feels her small breasts and flick your hands on your buttocks firm. Smacks her lips upturned nose, so different from yours, which is hooked.
- Come to my house - says Rodrigo. - I bathe, change clothes, drank coffee and then go to the meeting of the Club for the Hogs.
Mariane smiles, satisfied, as it does every time he makes decisions. Before putting the helmet asks if he can get her to spend the summer in Pine Forest, where are your friends.
- My vacation starts in two weeks only. Until then, we decided - Rodrigo frown.
- It will be great, love. Ever since we started dating, he never went out for travel. Not to mention that this drought is going crazy at all, here in town.
Rodrigo accelerates the motorcycle without saying that could have started the holidays. He did not, because his salary is consumed by benefits of the Gilera and help support her. She lives with her mother. Do not know her father, who died of cirrhosis. Looks borrowed money from a friend to spend the summer. You will feel humiliated if not travel. Also, know that Mariane stopped going to the beach, in January to stay with him.
Her father is a major in the army. When I heard of dating, was the work of Rodrigo. "Understand, young man. Had a daughter, would also want it to love someone better than a seller of trinkets and motorcycler. Soon I will take the Porto Alegre in order to prepare for college entrance. Probably never will see. Ends before that. "
The military fired up and went to Noble coffee shop, where, after lunch, talk with politicians, businessmen and soccer coaches. He smiles and gets patted on the back. If Mariane Rodrigo seen at this time, before going in the cafeteria where he also talks to Gerson, the Major called "catch" and "future son in law."
When he was informed of the comments of Major, by Mariana, Rodrigo felt as if covered in mud.
The pair met for less than a year. She had just graduated high school. Fell in love with that boy who ran dozens of motorcyclers. Rodrigo was reluctant. Did not want to date. Now fears losing it at the end of summer.
Chapter 3
Dona Ada, mother of Rodrigo, prepares the coffee table in a blue wooden house, surrounded by bushes and flowers: chrysanthemums, cup-of-milk-of-language dragon and roses. On the radio: "Eighteen hours, hear the prayer of the Hail Mary." Dalva de Oliveira singing interspersed with a black voice and severe.
Rodrigo and Mariane hear the last verse of this prayer in the courtyard to open the red gate that creaks when you move.
- I made coffee. Hi, Mariane. Wash your hands and sit down - he says, smiling, showing a table with a blue checkered tablecloth, nesting cuca, bread, coffee, cream, grape jam and cups and dishes decorated with red flowers and oranges.
Rodrigo will ask if spending money for the month. He evaded. Ashamed that his girlfriend to know that. Mariane says help is nice.
- At home my father gives everything, but when I finished college and is working as a lawyer, I want to help you too.
He lowered his eyes. Not afford to attend the only college in the city, or to escort her to Porto Alegre, in order to prepare for the entrance examination of the federal university. His mother, saddened, watch it. Mariane praises cuca banana. Hear the radio announcer interrupt the block music:
- Warning! Around the seventeen hours and thirty minutes, Lava Street Feet, three police officers shot the motorcycler Gustavo Schmidt, seventeen. The minor Marble worked in machine shop in the neighborhood Boqueirão. The reason was, according to witnesses, the fact that the motorcyclist had escaped police checkpoint in Brazil Avenue in front of the pre-vestibular Michigan. Residents of nearby threw stones and wooden sticks at police, who fled the scene. The body will be sent to the Forensic Institute.
Before the news, the three are silent. Rodrigo feel a gap at the back. Gustavo was his childhood friend, three years younger. She met him when the Freckled, as it was called, wanted to join the group of cyclists led by Rodrigo, Commander.
After being rejected three times, the Freckled resurfaced for the group's commander. Rode on a wheel and then with the aid of a makeshift wooden ramp on bricks, jumped and fell. Skinned knees and elbows, but got up without complaining, and frown on his face, he repeated that juggling, this time without losing balance. Commander, to November 11 years, laughed at the seriousness of the boy of nine years. Accepted in the group. Freckled, thereafter, attended all games and group rides.
On an Easter morning, only two attended the street. Freckled commander led to know the quarry, close to the rails, where they saw all Passo Fundo. Was half an hour from where they lived. Passed through a mechanical workshop in a shed. Freckled confessed: she wanted to be a mechanic like his father, but only for motorcycles.
Realized the dream had three months for the happiness of Commander and Freckled. Now life is closed for Freckled.
The Commander can do that?
Dona Ada, mother of Rodrigo, prepares the coffee table in a blue wooden house, surrounded by bushes and flowers: chrysanthemums, cup-of-milk-of-language dragon and roses. On the radio: "Eighteen hours, hear the prayer of the Hail Mary." Dalva de Oliveira singing interspersed with a black voice and severe.
Rodrigo and Mariane hear the last verse of this prayer in the courtyard to open the red gate that creaks when you move.
- I made coffee. Hi, Mariane. Wash your hands and sit down - he says, smiling, showing a table with a blue checkered tablecloth, nesting cuca, bread, coffee, cream, grape jam and cups and dishes decorated with red flowers and oranges.
Rodrigo will ask if spending money for the month. He evaded. Ashamed that his girlfriend to know that. Mariane says help is nice.
- At home my father gives everything, but when I finished college and is working as a lawyer, I want to help you too.
He lowered his eyes. Not afford to attend the only college in the city, or to escort her to Porto Alegre, in order to prepare for the entrance examination of the federal university. His mother, saddened, watch it. Mariane praises cuca banana. Hear the radio announcer interrupt the block music:
- Warning! Around the seventeen hours and thirty minutes, Lava Street Feet, three police officers shot the motorcycler Gustavo Schmidt, seventeen. The minor Marble worked in machine shop in the neighborhood Boqueirão. The reason was, according to witnesses, the fact that the motorcyclist had escaped police checkpoint in Brazil Avenue in front of the pre-vestibular Michigan. Residents of nearby threw stones and wooden sticks at police, who fled the scene. The body will be sent to the Forensic Institute.
Before the news, the three are silent. Rodrigo feel a gap at the back. Gustavo was his childhood friend, three years younger. She met him when the Freckled, as it was called, wanted to join the group of cyclists led by Rodrigo, Commander.
After being rejected three times, the Freckled resurfaced for the group's commander. Rode on a wheel and then with the aid of a makeshift wooden ramp on bricks, jumped and fell. Skinned knees and elbows, but got up without complaining, and frown on his face, he repeated that juggling, this time without losing balance. Commander, to November 11 years, laughed at the seriousness of the boy of nine years. Accepted in the group. Freckled, thereafter, attended all games and group rides.
On an Easter morning, only two attended the street. Freckled commander led to know the quarry, close to the rails, where they saw all Passo Fundo. Was half an hour from where they lived. Passed through a mechanical workshop in a shed. Freckled confessed: she wanted to be a mechanic like his father, but only for motorcycles.
Realized the dream had three months for the happiness of Commander and Freckled. Now life is closed for Freckled.
The Commander can do that?
Chapter 4
The red light illuminates the radio studio. Rodrigo dying in the heat of the place. Screeched:
- We call on all motorcyclers from Passo Fundo to meet in the square before the Cathedral of Our Lady of Aparecida to honor our friend and companion, Gustavo Schmidt, who was killed this afternoon by three military policemen.
The radio announcer Uirapuru appreciates the words of the motorcycler club president and announces the Voice of Brazil.
Before going to the plaza, Rodrigo leaves Mariane in her parents' house to pick up clothes. After parking the motorcycle in front of the Forensic Institute. The odor of chloroform enter the IML, like acid, for his nostrils.
The family, surrounded by white walls, awaiting the release of the body. Everyone knows the honor and thank the motorcyclists amid sobs. An attorney for potato nose, black suit - too much heat for that - and just under 30 years, says he requested information from the Military Police. Wait reply until the afternoon the next day. However, is pessimistic:
- Command of the brigade will never give their soldiers to trial. While there is dictatorship, the military send here.
Claims to be too risky to the protest called by Rodrigo. The Brigade can break up the protest with violence. Remember that strikes for higher wages in factories in São Paulo are suppressed the baton blows.
- If the protest is peaceful, have no courage to attack - the motorcycler replies.
Lawyer doubts, as the father of Gustavo. Rodrigo reiterates hold the protest. Asks the name of the three assassins to the lawyer, who notes on the back of a form: cable Antonio Rogerio Neves and soldiers of the Light and Igor de Almeida. They moved a few months ago to Passo Fundo, says the lawyer.
Do not know. Even so, the rider feels disgust by those names.
Mariane enters the IML and greets everyone. Take a backpack.
The couple says goodbye. Go to the square, amid the blue twilight of the newly launched night.
On the way, Rodrigo feel hatred and fear. Whether the police arrested. But the military can be violent. Since 1968, the government forbade the people to protest, strike or even meet to discuss.
At Passo Fundo the conflicts have always been sporadic. There was the so-called Battle of jumpers between Republicans and Federalists in 1894, which killed thousands of gauchos. Most were beheaded and their remains thrown into the field. Then came the revolution of 1923 in which the deaths were a shotgun and revolver.
In 1954, the population was moved when President Getulio Vargas committed suicide. However, Rodrigo never heard of strikes and protests for any reason at Passo Fundo. These things happen only in larger cities.
The red light illuminates the radio studio. Rodrigo dying in the heat of the place. Screeched:
- We call on all motorcyclers from Passo Fundo to meet in the square before the Cathedral of Our Lady of Aparecida to honor our friend and companion, Gustavo Schmidt, who was killed this afternoon by three military policemen.
The radio announcer Uirapuru appreciates the words of the motorcycler club president and announces the Voice of Brazil.
Before going to the plaza, Rodrigo leaves Mariane in her parents' house to pick up clothes. After parking the motorcycle in front of the Forensic Institute. The odor of chloroform enter the IML, like acid, for his nostrils.
The family, surrounded by white walls, awaiting the release of the body. Everyone knows the honor and thank the motorcyclists amid sobs. An attorney for potato nose, black suit - too much heat for that - and just under 30 years, says he requested information from the Military Police. Wait reply until the afternoon the next day. However, is pessimistic:
- Command of the brigade will never give their soldiers to trial. While there is dictatorship, the military send here.
Claims to be too risky to the protest called by Rodrigo. The Brigade can break up the protest with violence. Remember that strikes for higher wages in factories in São Paulo are suppressed the baton blows.
- If the protest is peaceful, have no courage to attack - the motorcycler replies.
Lawyer doubts, as the father of Gustavo. Rodrigo reiterates hold the protest. Asks the name of the three assassins to the lawyer, who notes on the back of a form: cable Antonio Rogerio Neves and soldiers of the Light and Igor de Almeida. They moved a few months ago to Passo Fundo, says the lawyer.
Do not know. Even so, the rider feels disgust by those names.
Mariane enters the IML and greets everyone. Take a backpack.
The couple says goodbye. Go to the square, amid the blue twilight of the newly launched night.
On the way, Rodrigo feel hatred and fear. Whether the police arrested. But the military can be violent. Since 1968, the government forbade the people to protest, strike or even meet to discuss.
At Passo Fundo the conflicts have always been sporadic. There was the so-called Battle of jumpers between Republicans and Federalists in 1894, which killed thousands of gauchos. Most were beheaded and their remains thrown into the field. Then came the revolution of 1923 in which the deaths were a shotgun and revolver.
In 1954, the population was moved when President Getulio Vargas committed suicide. However, Rodrigo never heard of strikes and protests for any reason at Passo Fundo. These things happen only in larger cities.
Chapter 5
In the square, dozens of motorcyclers accelerate their engines, under the white lights of the streetlights. Rodrigo looks at a sheet of newspaper on the floor: Monday - 05.02.1979.
Climbs on the hood of a Brasilia. Hundreds of people watching the group from a distance. Among them, the owner of the cafeteria with her look arrogant. The headlights illuminate the motorcycles Rodrigo.
Mariane it reaches a megaphone. Rodrigo yells:
- Hogs, Gustavo, our companion, was killed by three officers of the brigade. This crime must not go unpunished. We must protest in the barracks, newspapers, radio and TV. Otherwise the three responsible will not be condemned.
Applause. His black eyebrows arch up, demonstrating fury. Gerson sees, and his mischievous smile. It feels like spitting. Two police officers seeking to disperse the group, who protested shouting. Rodrigo asks motorcyclers to stay united.
- We marched out to the fire brigade - tells the megaphone. Note the frightened eyes of Mariane. If you know that the major part of protest, it can be brought to Porto Alegre earlier than expected and being forbidden to see Rodrigo.
In the square, dozens of motorcyclers accelerate their engines, under the white lights of the streetlights. Rodrigo looks at a sheet of newspaper on the floor: Monday - 05.02.1979.
Climbs on the hood of a Brasilia. Hundreds of people watching the group from a distance. Among them, the owner of the cafeteria with her look arrogant. The headlights illuminate the motorcycles Rodrigo.
Mariane it reaches a megaphone. Rodrigo yells:
- Hogs, Gustavo, our companion, was killed by three officers of the brigade. This crime must not go unpunished. We must protest in the barracks, newspapers, radio and TV. Otherwise the three responsible will not be condemned.
Applause. His black eyebrows arch up, demonstrating fury. Gerson sees, and his mischievous smile. It feels like spitting. Two police officers seeking to disperse the group, who protested shouting. Rodrigo asks motorcyclers to stay united.
- We marched out to the fire brigade - tells the megaphone. Note the frightened eyes of Mariane. If you know that the major part of protest, it can be brought to Porto Alegre earlier than expected and being forbidden to see Rodrigo.
Chapter 6
The guard yawns. Guardhouse is that since two o'clock. Now, eight in the evening, hopes that her surrender to custody. Mal realizes the sound wave approaching the building. Are motorcyclers, shouting "Justice!".
Hesitates between lifting the rifle for that parade of lights and call the command. Unnecessary. Sergeants and captains come to the gate.
Rodrigo asked by megaphone to the command of the Brigade to arrest the three officers responsible for the death of Gustav. A jeep parks in the alley. It stands on it, a colonel of graying mustache and eyebrows.
Boos. Rodrigo lowers the megaphone, come on and talk with the military. Want to repeat that the arrest of three policemen.
- I do not accept applications for the rioters. The three officers were exercising their duty. I defend them and not hairy subversive same to you - the captain yells. Take the megaphone of Rodrigo and orders everyone to return to their homes under threat of being arrested if they disobey.
Some motorcyclers hurl stones on the jeep, which heads into the railings of the barracks. A car, parked nearby, is overturned by protesters. Rodrigo is surprised by the reaction of motorcycler. Tries to stop them screaming. The guardhouse, a police officer gives shots in the air. Two hundred motorcyclers and pedestrians disperse, beating confused.
- Do not, man. Do not shoot - one of the motorcyclers cry for militias in the guardhouse.
Mariane tightens Rodrigo's arm, as if awake. He climbs on the motorcycle and speeds down a side street, while the remainder is scattered, disorganized.
The guard yawns. Guardhouse is that since two o'clock. Now, eight in the evening, hopes that her surrender to custody. Mal realizes the sound wave approaching the building. Are motorcyclers, shouting "Justice!".
Hesitates between lifting the rifle for that parade of lights and call the command. Unnecessary. Sergeants and captains come to the gate.
Rodrigo asked by megaphone to the command of the Brigade to arrest the three officers responsible for the death of Gustav. A jeep parks in the alley. It stands on it, a colonel of graying mustache and eyebrows.
Boos. Rodrigo lowers the megaphone, come on and talk with the military. Want to repeat that the arrest of three policemen.
- I do not accept applications for the rioters. The three officers were exercising their duty. I defend them and not hairy subversive same to you - the captain yells. Take the megaphone of Rodrigo and orders everyone to return to their homes under threat of being arrested if they disobey.
Some motorcyclers hurl stones on the jeep, which heads into the railings of the barracks. A car, parked nearby, is overturned by protesters. Rodrigo is surprised by the reaction of motorcycler. Tries to stop them screaming. The guardhouse, a police officer gives shots in the air. Two hundred motorcyclers and pedestrians disperse, beating confused.
- Do not, man. Do not shoot - one of the motorcyclers cry for militias in the guardhouse.
Mariane tightens Rodrigo's arm, as if awake. He climbs on the motorcycle and speeds down a side street, while the remainder is scattered, disorganized.
Chapter 7
The skinny shadow of Raphael appears in the window of the old wooden house. Mariane see Rodrigo and panting. Rafael has curly egg-shaped body and a fine. Amazing to see the faces of the couple ruffles.
- What happened? - Questions - just stay with this guy when I have a stomachache.
Rodrigo smiles without showing his teeth, does the same with all games of Rafael. The friend let the couple rest in the living room couch torn. Serve biscuits and orange juice in a pan, with his long arms and thin while they tell him what happened. Sleep there to disguise the Brigade. Rinse in a bowl. The water supply is not back yet.
Mariane remains silent, with a look that ranges from despair to worry. Rodrigo fears she will let you, if you continue protesting, but the leader of the motorcycler and friend of Gustav. In the room, chatting. She reveals that want to take it to Porto Alegre with help from parents. However, if the major you know that Rodrigo is leading the brigade against motorcyclers, you may separate them before.
Both paralyze the look in each other. There are tears. Rodrigo concludes:
- I want to go with you, Mariane, but I need to lead the motorcyclers who are arrested the killers of Gustav. I want you to fight beside me. Only you give me strength.
They embrace, causing them to dry the tears in the body of one another.
The skinny shadow of Raphael appears in the window of the old wooden house. Mariane see Rodrigo and panting. Rafael has curly egg-shaped body and a fine. Amazing to see the faces of the couple ruffles.
- What happened? - Questions - just stay with this guy when I have a stomachache.
Rodrigo smiles without showing his teeth, does the same with all games of Rafael. The friend let the couple rest in the living room couch torn. Serve biscuits and orange juice in a pan, with his long arms and thin while they tell him what happened. Sleep there to disguise the Brigade. Rinse in a bowl. The water supply is not back yet.
Mariane remains silent, with a look that ranges from despair to worry. Rodrigo fears she will let you, if you continue protesting, but the leader of the motorcycler and friend of Gustav. In the room, chatting. She reveals that want to take it to Porto Alegre with help from parents. However, if the major you know that Rodrigo is leading the brigade against motorcyclers, you may separate them before.
Both paralyze the look in each other. There are tears. Rodrigo concludes:
- I want to go with you, Mariane, but I need to lead the motorcyclers who are arrested the killers of Gustav. I want you to fight beside me. Only you give me strength.
They embrace, causing them to dry the tears in the body of one another.
Chapter 8
At midnight they go to the funeral of his friend.
The coffin is in the room of the house of the parents of Gustav. Few of those who participated in the riot in the barracks are there. They must fear being arrested, he thinks Rodrigo. Still, hundreds fill the room and the courtyard that night and warm moonlit. Luciane's there, the blonde and freckled girlfriend Gustavo. It seems to have 17 years. Rodrigo believes that it will be little time mourning the boyfriend who had met a week.
Rodrigo's mother in the yard, look son, he is contradicted by chance, but I gave up trying to change it. Gerson conversation with friends outside the house. Flame Mariane.
When Rodrigo is approaching, Gerson rails for Mariane:
- It's like you said, your father will hate those who do riot in the city.
Rodrigo the crosshairs as who wants to fight. But just take the hand of his girlfriend and says he found some of her friends. One agrees to confirm the parents of Mariane, who slept on a farm, that night.
Gustavo's father asks to talk privately with friends. Thanks for the demonstration in support of Gustav, but disapproves violence. Rodrigo agrees and says it will seek to avoid riots, like the barracks.
Promises, the father of his friend, Gustavo ensure all night until the burial. His father disagrees.
- Rodrigo, you should sleep early and Mariane, to lead the funeral of my son. All young people who visited the funeral will say that the square and the funeral procession. Everyone who talked to me say they feel hate the police. You have to command them. Avoid as further deaths.
- I do not feel capable of it - says Rodrigo.
- If not you, do not know where to turn.
- I will do my best. I will try to command the motorcyclers - the young man answered, shaking hands with the father of Gustavo, arching lips, controlled crying. Rodrigo demand Mariane.
The pair of lovers parting from family and back to the house of Rafael.
At midnight they go to the funeral of his friend.
The coffin is in the room of the house of the parents of Gustav. Few of those who participated in the riot in the barracks are there. They must fear being arrested, he thinks Rodrigo. Still, hundreds fill the room and the courtyard that night and warm moonlit. Luciane's there, the blonde and freckled girlfriend Gustavo. It seems to have 17 years. Rodrigo believes that it will be little time mourning the boyfriend who had met a week.
Rodrigo's mother in the yard, look son, he is contradicted by chance, but I gave up trying to change it. Gerson conversation with friends outside the house. Flame Mariane.
When Rodrigo is approaching, Gerson rails for Mariane:
- It's like you said, your father will hate those who do riot in the city.
Rodrigo the crosshairs as who wants to fight. But just take the hand of his girlfriend and says he found some of her friends. One agrees to confirm the parents of Mariane, who slept on a farm, that night.
Gustavo's father asks to talk privately with friends. Thanks for the demonstration in support of Gustav, but disapproves violence. Rodrigo agrees and says it will seek to avoid riots, like the barracks.
Promises, the father of his friend, Gustavo ensure all night until the burial. His father disagrees.
- Rodrigo, you should sleep early and Mariane, to lead the funeral of my son. All young people who visited the funeral will say that the square and the funeral procession. Everyone who talked to me say they feel hate the police. You have to command them. Avoid as further deaths.
- I do not feel capable of it - says Rodrigo.
- If not you, do not know where to turn.
- I will do my best. I will try to command the motorcyclers - the young man answered, shaking hands with the father of Gustavo, arching lips, controlled crying. Rodrigo demand Mariane.
The pair of lovers parting from family and back to the house of Rafael.
Chapter 9
A fire glows in the courtyard of Raphael. Many knew that the president of Club Hogs and his girlfriend will sleep there. Await them. When they arrive, Rafael greets them and confirms that the father of Gustavo said:
- Those who come here want to go to the square tomorrow, and some say they talked with friends who said the same.
Near the fire, a group made posters with gouache on brown paper or cardboard. They write: "Justice," "Do not kill innocents," "Be fair with Gustavo." Plan to take messages during courtship. Rodrigo agrees and asks, after the burial, the posters are placed in front of the cathedral. Tiaraju, a fat sweaty, interrupts the discussion. Proposes, screaming, burning the barracks.
It applauded.
Rodrigo interrupts.
- We must not be violent, but there may be fatalities. We want justice, not tragedy.
Tiaraju pursed lips. Wine exudes. Indicator points to Rodrigo.
- You should arm the motorcyclers. Not only do demonstrations. Enough of the officers in chasing, calling them "hairy and subversives."
A shrill voice chimes in with him. He says he has a gun. Some praise him. Rodrigo, wide-eyed, repeating that violence can lead to deaths. A slight, at his back, he repeats: "Let's lynch the three policemen." A big nose, green teeth, says the police are sleeping in the Department of Political and Social Order, the DOPS, where they torture political prisoners. Were taken to be protected by police.
Tiaraju screams:
- Come on, lynch them.
One group stands up and agrees to calls. Rodrigo directs them not to do so. But the motorcycles are linked. Ralph lifted his arms pinch. Tries to stop them, without success. Rodrigo and Rafael follow them, each one with his motorcycle. Mariane can not ride.
Dozens of people occupied the streets in front of the corner building where the DOPS.
- Murderers, murderers! - Scream. The lights are off at the station. A shot resounds dry like a hammer on wood.
Came from the building or motorcycler? Stones shatter glass. New shots. Motorcycles speed up against the door. Five crashes and break down. The machines invade the DOPS, illuminating the place with their headlights.
The smell of mold permeates the building, soon replaced by the smoke of vehicles. Rodrigo see motorcycles coming down the stairs towards the cells and rooms. Drop files and tables. The only guard in conversation with one of the local motorcyclers. Seem friends. "So nobody was hit," imagines Rodrigo.
Sirens. The friend of the police alert: reinforcements are coming. A voice cries out: there is none in all rooms and cells. A motorcycle breaks down the door downstairs. Pull down the gate of the courtyard and run away before they reach the cars.
- I'm so nervous, my teeth seem pandeiro samba school - vents to Rafael Rodrigo, in giving the game on their machines.
A fire glows in the courtyard of Raphael. Many knew that the president of Club Hogs and his girlfriend will sleep there. Await them. When they arrive, Rafael greets them and confirms that the father of Gustavo said:
- Those who come here want to go to the square tomorrow, and some say they talked with friends who said the same.
Near the fire, a group made posters with gouache on brown paper or cardboard. They write: "Justice," "Do not kill innocents," "Be fair with Gustavo." Plan to take messages during courtship. Rodrigo agrees and asks, after the burial, the posters are placed in front of the cathedral. Tiaraju, a fat sweaty, interrupts the discussion. Proposes, screaming, burning the barracks.
It applauded.
Rodrigo interrupts.
- We must not be violent, but there may be fatalities. We want justice, not tragedy.
Tiaraju pursed lips. Wine exudes. Indicator points to Rodrigo.
- You should arm the motorcyclers. Not only do demonstrations. Enough of the officers in chasing, calling them "hairy and subversives."
A shrill voice chimes in with him. He says he has a gun. Some praise him. Rodrigo, wide-eyed, repeating that violence can lead to deaths. A slight, at his back, he repeats: "Let's lynch the three policemen." A big nose, green teeth, says the police are sleeping in the Department of Political and Social Order, the DOPS, where they torture political prisoners. Were taken to be protected by police.
Tiaraju screams:
- Come on, lynch them.
One group stands up and agrees to calls. Rodrigo directs them not to do so. But the motorcycles are linked. Ralph lifted his arms pinch. Tries to stop them, without success. Rodrigo and Rafael follow them, each one with his motorcycle. Mariane can not ride.
Dozens of people occupied the streets in front of the corner building where the DOPS.
- Murderers, murderers! - Scream. The lights are off at the station. A shot resounds dry like a hammer on wood.
Came from the building or motorcycler? Stones shatter glass. New shots. Motorcycles speed up against the door. Five crashes and break down. The machines invade the DOPS, illuminating the place with their headlights.
The smell of mold permeates the building, soon replaced by the smoke of vehicles. Rodrigo see motorcycles coming down the stairs towards the cells and rooms. Drop files and tables. The only guard in conversation with one of the local motorcyclers. Seem friends. "So nobody was hit," imagines Rodrigo.
Sirens. The friend of the police alert: reinforcements are coming. A voice cries out: there is none in all rooms and cells. A motorcycle breaks down the door downstairs. Pull down the gate of the courtyard and run away before they reach the cars.
- I'm so nervous, my teeth seem pandeiro samba school - vents to Rafael Rodrigo, in giving the game on their machines.
Chapter 10
Return to the courtyard of the house of Rafael. Some howl: "Victory." Others exude fear. Mariane Rodrigo suggests writing a letter to the brigade, saying he did not accept the violence and that his intention is a peaceful protest to punish those responsible for the death of Gustav. Rafael agrees. Write it on a portable typewriter, which lay behind the sofa.
The fact that Mariane is the daughter of the military makes more empowered to deliver the letter. If caught, will soon be released, insists she and Raphael. Rodrigo reluctant, but agrees. The motorcycler who caused the turmoil left.
There remain some couples who hear a musician, the Boca, near the campfire.
- We, with heart in mouth, and they, with his ear to the mouth - an indignant Rafael.
Everyone laughs. Rodrigo known as the friend keeps the good mood.
Mariane heads on the back of Rodrigo. Park two blocks from DOPS. On foot, she leaves the letter under the door destroyed. The heart throbs of her boyfriend, fearing to be arrested, but she returns walking. Fold the corner on the first floor.
The motorcycler is going to meet him. Leave home to Raphael. They need rest.
In the bedroom, to caress and kiss for long minutes. Moving, rhythmic, one over the other, looking in the eyes, while his sweat mingle in their bellies, faces and thighs. Rodrigo tries to achieve strength through the caressing it.
They embrace after the enjoyment and thus sleep. He dreams. Check with Mariane and friends. Gustav is the Freckled and Rodrigo Commander. All are children. Pedal through the streets full of houses with gardens and rooftops in V inverted.
The Freckled motorcycle hits a rock and falls down the sidewalk. Commander Mariane and will help him and ask the other riders who take the stone path. However, instead of removing it, destroy it with a hammer, causing shrapnel to injure Commander, Mariane and Freckled, which, in the arms of his friend, lying dead.
Wake of a jump. You are sweaty. Rises to take a bath. Mariane sleeps.
No water. Removes sweat and refresh yourself with a bucket of water that is under the sink.
Return to the courtyard of the house of Rafael. Some howl: "Victory." Others exude fear. Mariane Rodrigo suggests writing a letter to the brigade, saying he did not accept the violence and that his intention is a peaceful protest to punish those responsible for the death of Gustav. Rafael agrees. Write it on a portable typewriter, which lay behind the sofa.
The fact that Mariane is the daughter of the military makes more empowered to deliver the letter. If caught, will soon be released, insists she and Raphael. Rodrigo reluctant, but agrees. The motorcycler who caused the turmoil left.
There remain some couples who hear a musician, the Boca, near the campfire.
- We, with heart in mouth, and they, with his ear to the mouth - an indignant Rafael.
Everyone laughs. Rodrigo known as the friend keeps the good mood.
Mariane heads on the back of Rodrigo. Park two blocks from DOPS. On foot, she leaves the letter under the door destroyed. The heart throbs of her boyfriend, fearing to be arrested, but she returns walking. Fold the corner on the first floor.
The motorcycler is going to meet him. Leave home to Raphael. They need rest.
In the bedroom, to caress and kiss for long minutes. Moving, rhythmic, one over the other, looking in the eyes, while his sweat mingle in their bellies, faces and thighs. Rodrigo tries to achieve strength through the caressing it.
They embrace after the enjoyment and thus sleep. He dreams. Check with Mariane and friends. Gustav is the Freckled and Rodrigo Commander. All are children. Pedal through the streets full of houses with gardens and rooftops in V inverted.
The Freckled motorcycle hits a rock and falls down the sidewalk. Commander Mariane and will help him and ask the other riders who take the stone path. However, instead of removing it, destroy it with a hammer, causing shrapnel to injure Commander, Mariane and Freckled, which, in the arms of his friend, lying dead.
Wake of a jump. You are sweaty. Rises to take a bath. Mariane sleeps.
No water. Removes sweat and refresh yourself with a bucket of water that is under the sink.
Chapter 11
The rays of morning sun do Rodrigo tearing, but it remains in front of the cathedral, gazing at the sunrise. The sky is too blue. The drought will continue, says the radios.
motorcyclers gather to their surroundings to attend the funeral motorcade. Receive and distribute posters to wield in the funeral procession. Mariane was still asleep when Rodrigo came out of the house of Rafael.
A leader of the motorcycler going to the magazine, next to the cathedral. There is no news in the newspapers of the capital. Already two daily Passo Fundo report and comment on the death and protest the previous night in almost every page. They call what happens as the "Revolt of the Hogs."
Walk to the store where he works on the other side of the square, one block. The metallic curtain was opened recently. Officials ask, flustered about the death of Gustav.
Calls to the home of the shop owner. The owner's son attends. It motorcycler, too, and says he will join the group: "We are all proud of you, Rodrigo." They talk a few minutes. Authorizes an employee to take their vacation at that time. The president thanked and around the square.
In front of the cathedral, a booming voice calls him son. Check eyebrows, a mustache too thick and look angry. It is the army major and father of Mariane plainclothes. Rodrigo advised to stop that rebellion.
- What you did yesterday can lead them to prison or worse. Also, my daughter was involved in that riot, I even ask your head, son.
A journalist interrupted the dialogue. Presents itself as the center of the country, but Rodrigo've seen your face around the city streets. Requests to interview the rider. Major causes:
- The army will join the brigade, using violence to stop the revolt? The Shock troops will come from Porto Alegre? You will support them? - Questioned and, before a military reply continues: - In December, Gen. Ernesto Geisel revoked the Institutional Act No. 5 - thus ending the chase policy - and removed the censorship on the media. The Figueiredo government, which assumed the presidency in March, could be the last military government. Still, he believes in violence to control young people, major?
Major mumbles and leaves. Before screams:
- I do not answer questions from subversives.
Now Rodrigo is a journalist who observes the curious.
The reporter is in shirt and trousers rumpled, unshaven and smells of cigarettes. Take a sip of a bottle of whiskey that takes from his pocket. Expresses its raucous bohemian:
- Give thanks that I have sent away the major and answer my questions, boy.
Wonders if the insurgency is a "struggle for democracy." Rodrigo responds only want respect for the police and the community that motorcyclers understand little about politics. The smile of the journalist reveals dozens of yellowed teeth and grooves in his face.
- Do you know of politics more than they think.
Bid farewell to.
Rodrigo relieved by the departure of that smell of smoke.
"Daybreak there on the hill / that beauty / no one cries / no sadness / disappointment one feels," sings Clara Nunes turntable some flat street morom. Rodrigo tries to listen to that song from the roar of exhausts. Rafael unworthy to:
- The engines of these motorcycles make happy any otolaryngologist. Long name, this, no?
The Cathedral is closed. The bishop announced his refusal to radios to open it, while there is anger. Marianne comes to the plaza. He went to his parents' home to change clothes. Rodrigo asks to put the helmet to the Major did not recognize it.
- It will start the procession - screamed Rafael Increases the motorcycles roaring down the street who follow that separates the cathedral of the avenue. Rodrigo following, alone. Mariane goes on the back of Rafael screening for the major.
On the avenue, the leader of the motorcycler hearse sees and feels in his chest similar to a black velvet blackness of the curtains that cover the wagon where the body of his friend.
Dozens of vehicles accompanying the cortege to the cemetery which sailed from Vera Cruz.
Hundreds of motorcycles line up. They hear only the sounds of engines and wheels on a cobblestone road. Before the death of Gustav, motorcyclers and drivers are cursed in the streets. Now there is harmony.
Friends tell Rodrigo: Army Brigade and form barriers to prevent riders from entering or leaving of Passo Fundo. Those who came brought motorcycles hidden in cargoes of soybeans. His temples throb. The revolt is greater than imagined. Around you, the pedestrian applaud. Before the hairy and called subversive. Now they are heroes.
The rays of morning sun do Rodrigo tearing, but it remains in front of the cathedral, gazing at the sunrise. The sky is too blue. The drought will continue, says the radios.
motorcyclers gather to their surroundings to attend the funeral motorcade. Receive and distribute posters to wield in the funeral procession. Mariane was still asleep when Rodrigo came out of the house of Rafael.
A leader of the motorcycler going to the magazine, next to the cathedral. There is no news in the newspapers of the capital. Already two daily Passo Fundo report and comment on the death and protest the previous night in almost every page. They call what happens as the "Revolt of the Hogs."
Walk to the store where he works on the other side of the square, one block. The metallic curtain was opened recently. Officials ask, flustered about the death of Gustav.
Calls to the home of the shop owner. The owner's son attends. It motorcycler, too, and says he will join the group: "We are all proud of you, Rodrigo." They talk a few minutes. Authorizes an employee to take their vacation at that time. The president thanked and around the square.
In front of the cathedral, a booming voice calls him son. Check eyebrows, a mustache too thick and look angry. It is the army major and father of Mariane plainclothes. Rodrigo advised to stop that rebellion.
- What you did yesterday can lead them to prison or worse. Also, my daughter was involved in that riot, I even ask your head, son.
A journalist interrupted the dialogue. Presents itself as the center of the country, but Rodrigo've seen your face around the city streets. Requests to interview the rider. Major causes:
- The army will join the brigade, using violence to stop the revolt? The Shock troops will come from Porto Alegre? You will support them? - Questioned and, before a military reply continues: - In December, Gen. Ernesto Geisel revoked the Institutional Act No. 5 - thus ending the chase policy - and removed the censorship on the media. The Figueiredo government, which assumed the presidency in March, could be the last military government. Still, he believes in violence to control young people, major?
Major mumbles and leaves. Before screams:
- I do not answer questions from subversives.
Now Rodrigo is a journalist who observes the curious.
The reporter is in shirt and trousers rumpled, unshaven and smells of cigarettes. Take a sip of a bottle of whiskey that takes from his pocket. Expresses its raucous bohemian:
- Give thanks that I have sent away the major and answer my questions, boy.
Wonders if the insurgency is a "struggle for democracy." Rodrigo responds only want respect for the police and the community that motorcyclers understand little about politics. The smile of the journalist reveals dozens of yellowed teeth and grooves in his face.
- Do you know of politics more than they think.
Bid farewell to.
Rodrigo relieved by the departure of that smell of smoke.
"Daybreak there on the hill / that beauty / no one cries / no sadness / disappointment one feels," sings Clara Nunes turntable some flat street morom. Rodrigo tries to listen to that song from the roar of exhausts. Rafael unworthy to:
- The engines of these motorcycles make happy any otolaryngologist. Long name, this, no?
The Cathedral is closed. The bishop announced his refusal to radios to open it, while there is anger. Marianne comes to the plaza. He went to his parents' home to change clothes. Rodrigo asks to put the helmet to the Major did not recognize it.
- It will start the procession - screamed Rafael Increases the motorcycles roaring down the street who follow that separates the cathedral of the avenue. Rodrigo following, alone. Mariane goes on the back of Rafael screening for the major.
On the avenue, the leader of the motorcycler hearse sees and feels in his chest similar to a black velvet blackness of the curtains that cover the wagon where the body of his friend.
Dozens of vehicles accompanying the cortege to the cemetery which sailed from Vera Cruz.
Hundreds of motorcycles line up. They hear only the sounds of engines and wheels on a cobblestone road. Before the death of Gustav, motorcyclers and drivers are cursed in the streets. Now there is harmony.
Friends tell Rodrigo: Army Brigade and form barriers to prevent riders from entering or leaving of Passo Fundo. Those who came brought motorcycles hidden in cargoes of soybeans. His temples throb. The revolt is greater than imagined. Around you, the pedestrian applaud. Before the hairy and called subversive. Now they are heroes.
Chapter 12
The coffin descends under watery eyes and silent. Mariane cries in her boyfriend's chest, which satisfies the granite vaults filled with images of Our Lady, angels and Jesus Christ. Hundreds of people cram the cemetery, even on the tombs.
The grinding of granite over the grave seems to shave chest Mariane.
Rodrigo Gerson note observing them from a distance. Search does not notice it, but after the burial, he comes to give them sympathy for his friend. Asks to talk privately with Mariane, who accepts, to the despair of Rodrigo. It returns the dialogue with eyes red and moist. Gerson says he fears that friends of the soldiers accused of killing Gustavo want to hurt her or Rodrigo.
- I'm worried. Many people say that you will be prosecuted - said the girl.
Rodrigo ignore that last sentence. It is concerned with Gerson. Think: "Even at the funeral he wants to approach her." Note men in dark glasses with angry faces. By haircut, police seem Military Police. Ignore them and retires there.
Rodrigo stops at the entrance to the cemetery to hear a choir sing, "Where the earth begin / Black Wind, folks, I am / Where the land ends / I'm Black Wind / Who will remember me hear / I want to fight / war, not ". Who is trying to keep up, but lost in the verses of the song of Meatballs.
Applause at the end of the song, interspersed by a comment from a fat knickers: "Good music is the same Teixeirinha. Twenty yards away a bald mustachioed pulls a harmonica-point of the trunk of his DKV and sings softly, soon followed by others: "Whoever wants to know who I am / look at the blue sky / and scream along with me / Viva Rio Grande do South / scarf identifies / what my origin / I am the Province of St. Peter / In the middle of Querencia.
In the chorus, chant: "Oh my Rio Grande / Rio Grande do Sul Corner / live for you / I have the luxury / Querencia beloved ...". Stop listening to the scolding of an elderly woman in mourning:
- Stop it, its thick. Respect the family of the boy.
Rodrigo brings motorcyclers at the exit of the cemetery for a rally. Brandish placards with slogans calling for the arrest of the killers of Gustav. While the motorcyclers arrive, they are applauded by those who attended the burial. In one such moment, there is the father of Pearl, with angry look than before.
- Where is my daughter?
- I do not know, Major. He told me he would spend the night on a farm with a friend.
- Bullshit! My men told me that she is in that group. Before I called him son, but you are a troublemaker. You never see her again.
That last sentence hits the motorcycler as a punch in the mouth.
- If my daughter is not home tonight, the army will end in an instant with this mess that you pitched. Subversive!
Major moves away.
- A final warning: Shock troops of the Squadron and Pedro Paulo, Porto Alegre, will assume command of the Military Police. If I were you, back to the tail of the skirt of the mother.
When part in a jeep, Rodrigo feel a hand on his back. Mariane is crying. Embrace it and repeats in his ear:
- I only want you. I just want you.
The friend Rafael greets them, without noticing the hiccups Rodrigo's girlfriend. He talked to Luciane, former girlfriend of Gustav.
- The Luciane's prettier than positive bank balance - reflects the skinny motorcycler. - I went to comfort her. She not only suffers the loss of Gustav, but also because her father is military and his brother, Zeca, a motorcycler. Her father and brother fight all day. Then she cries a lot, while at home.
Interrupts the narrative to note that Mariane solution to the shoulder of her boyfriend. Goodbye to the couple and will try the brother of Luciane to learn more about the girl.
Rodrigo Rafael and waves to caress the hair of his girlfriend, that settled down. Asks her to return home to their parents. Mariane insists on accompanying him to night.
He agrees.
The coffin descends under watery eyes and silent. Mariane cries in her boyfriend's chest, which satisfies the granite vaults filled with images of Our Lady, angels and Jesus Christ. Hundreds of people cram the cemetery, even on the tombs.
The grinding of granite over the grave seems to shave chest Mariane.
Rodrigo Gerson note observing them from a distance. Search does not notice it, but after the burial, he comes to give them sympathy for his friend. Asks to talk privately with Mariane, who accepts, to the despair of Rodrigo. It returns the dialogue with eyes red and moist. Gerson says he fears that friends of the soldiers accused of killing Gustavo want to hurt her or Rodrigo.
- I'm worried. Many people say that you will be prosecuted - said the girl.
Rodrigo ignore that last sentence. It is concerned with Gerson. Think: "Even at the funeral he wants to approach her." Note men in dark glasses with angry faces. By haircut, police seem Military Police. Ignore them and retires there.
Rodrigo stops at the entrance to the cemetery to hear a choir sing, "Where the earth begin / Black Wind, folks, I am / Where the land ends / I'm Black Wind / Who will remember me hear / I want to fight / war, not ". Who is trying to keep up, but lost in the verses of the song of Meatballs.
Applause at the end of the song, interspersed by a comment from a fat knickers: "Good music is the same Teixeirinha. Twenty yards away a bald mustachioed pulls a harmonica-point of the trunk of his DKV and sings softly, soon followed by others: "Whoever wants to know who I am / look at the blue sky / and scream along with me / Viva Rio Grande do South / scarf identifies / what my origin / I am the Province of St. Peter / In the middle of Querencia.
In the chorus, chant: "Oh my Rio Grande / Rio Grande do Sul Corner / live for you / I have the luxury / Querencia beloved ...". Stop listening to the scolding of an elderly woman in mourning:
- Stop it, its thick. Respect the family of the boy.
Rodrigo brings motorcyclers at the exit of the cemetery for a rally. Brandish placards with slogans calling for the arrest of the killers of Gustav. While the motorcyclers arrive, they are applauded by those who attended the burial. In one such moment, there is the father of Pearl, with angry look than before.
- Where is my daughter?
- I do not know, Major. He told me he would spend the night on a farm with a friend.
- Bullshit! My men told me that she is in that group. Before I called him son, but you are a troublemaker. You never see her again.
That last sentence hits the motorcycler as a punch in the mouth.
- If my daughter is not home tonight, the army will end in an instant with this mess that you pitched. Subversive!
Major moves away.
- A final warning: Shock troops of the Squadron and Pedro Paulo, Porto Alegre, will assume command of the Military Police. If I were you, back to the tail of the skirt of the mother.
When part in a jeep, Rodrigo feel a hand on his back. Mariane is crying. Embrace it and repeats in his ear:
- I only want you. I just want you.
The friend Rafael greets them, without noticing the hiccups Rodrigo's girlfriend. He talked to Luciane, former girlfriend of Gustav.
- The Luciane's prettier than positive bank balance - reflects the skinny motorcycler. - I went to comfort her. She not only suffers the loss of Gustav, but also because her father is military and his brother, Zeca, a motorcycler. Her father and brother fight all day. Then she cries a lot, while at home.
Interrupts the narrative to note that Mariane solution to the shoulder of her boyfriend. Goodbye to the couple and will try the brother of Luciane to learn more about the girl.
Rodrigo Rafael and waves to caress the hair of his girlfriend, that settled down. Asks her to return home to their parents. Mariane insists on accompanying him to night.
He agrees.
Chapter 13
Over a hundred motorcyclers follow the cemetery towards the square in front of the cathedral. Dozens of pedestrians involved in slow procession, in full midday. Some waved placards calling for the arrest of perpetrators of Gustav. As they stopped in the square, Rodrigo note hundreds of military police and army soldiers on the side streets.
Arise cars, a grouping men on horseback and on foot with batons and Troop Shock Brigade, which interrupt the streets giving access to the plaza. Rodrigo lifts her arms. Calls for calm. A lieutenant with a megaphone, ordering the "subversives" they disperse. Pedestrians and motorcyclers scream against the Brigade, while they pick stones from the ground or pluck tree branches of the square.
Some riders try to escape through the side streets, stopping cars but there are outputs. Traders close their doors of their stores. Police officers on foot and horsemen approaching. A voice in the crowd, shouted:
- Leave us in peace.
The motorcycler, as if waking up from a trance, they scream and speed against the military, who erect their nightsticks. The troopers give blows and the soldiers pushed the demonstrators. A mounted policeman kicks the back of fat Tiaraju, holding the rider's leg and drops, with elbows on your stomach. Pedestrians throw stones at police, who retreated. The slow exodus of police stimulates the protesters to continue to throw stones and pieces of wood in the troop that has no shields, is struck. Rodrigo encourages motorcyclers and pedestrians to continue to scream and taunt the police. Hatred makes your body shake. Reacts taking pieces of stone from the sidewalk and playing in the police, who take refuge in the barracks of the Military Brigade, located three blocks from the Cathedral square.
The leader of the motorcyclers cry:
- Victory! - Accompanied by other protesters. Receives a baton blow on the neck that stun. Only then realizes that a group of policemen followed them in silence. The protesters are trapped between the group and police barracks. Mariane, pushed to the ground, threatening the officers with his helmet. A guard and a motorcycler falling on her, punching each other.
Rodrigo and pushes them picked up by the arm. She screams and kicks at the police, while her boyfriend with his hand. He tries to leave the battle, giving blows with his helmet, used as a cudgel.
In front, one of the vehicles is about to run them over. Drop the hand of Mariane and is standing on the hood of the car. The driver brakes, but the sergeant at his side, follow orders and launches truncheon blows to the legs of Rodrigo.
A rumble makes you lose your balance. Flames rise to heaven. A car was overturned and burned by the motorcycler.
They hear shots.
- Assassins - shouted a female voice.
Rodrigo stops, as if he felt the pain of the blows. Doctors and nursing assistants leave the ambulance, neighbor, and run among the public.
- Bastards - a male voice screamed.
Someone lost his life. Around Rodrigo, everyone stops fighting. The veins in his neck pulsing with the naked eye. All lost control. He could not have been uncontrolled, too. Mariane cries. Picks her up and takes her to the sidewalk. Appears to be well physically, but with the body shiny with sweat.
Rafael, accompanied by the brother of Luciane, tells his friend, someone was shot in the face and died, and Fabio, factory worker Metals Fine, was taken in serious condition to hospital. The nurses promised more ambulances. There is an endless cries of "murderers." The military, under order of a lieutenant, back to the barracks. They take no prisoners.
- How did we lose control, Rafael? - Rodrigo repeats, looking at nothing.
Over a hundred motorcyclers follow the cemetery towards the square in front of the cathedral. Dozens of pedestrians involved in slow procession, in full midday. Some waved placards calling for the arrest of perpetrators of Gustav. As they stopped in the square, Rodrigo note hundreds of military police and army soldiers on the side streets.
Arise cars, a grouping men on horseback and on foot with batons and Troop Shock Brigade, which interrupt the streets giving access to the plaza. Rodrigo lifts her arms. Calls for calm. A lieutenant with a megaphone, ordering the "subversives" they disperse. Pedestrians and motorcyclers scream against the Brigade, while they pick stones from the ground or pluck tree branches of the square.
Some riders try to escape through the side streets, stopping cars but there are outputs. Traders close their doors of their stores. Police officers on foot and horsemen approaching. A voice in the crowd, shouted:
- Leave us in peace.
The motorcycler, as if waking up from a trance, they scream and speed against the military, who erect their nightsticks. The troopers give blows and the soldiers pushed the demonstrators. A mounted policeman kicks the back of fat Tiaraju, holding the rider's leg and drops, with elbows on your stomach. Pedestrians throw stones at police, who retreated. The slow exodus of police stimulates the protesters to continue to throw stones and pieces of wood in the troop that has no shields, is struck. Rodrigo encourages motorcyclers and pedestrians to continue to scream and taunt the police. Hatred makes your body shake. Reacts taking pieces of stone from the sidewalk and playing in the police, who take refuge in the barracks of the Military Brigade, located three blocks from the Cathedral square.
The leader of the motorcyclers cry:
- Victory! - Accompanied by other protesters. Receives a baton blow on the neck that stun. Only then realizes that a group of policemen followed them in silence. The protesters are trapped between the group and police barracks. Mariane, pushed to the ground, threatening the officers with his helmet. A guard and a motorcycler falling on her, punching each other.
Rodrigo and pushes them picked up by the arm. She screams and kicks at the police, while her boyfriend with his hand. He tries to leave the battle, giving blows with his helmet, used as a cudgel.
In front, one of the vehicles is about to run them over. Drop the hand of Mariane and is standing on the hood of the car. The driver brakes, but the sergeant at his side, follow orders and launches truncheon blows to the legs of Rodrigo.
A rumble makes you lose your balance. Flames rise to heaven. A car was overturned and burned by the motorcycler.
They hear shots.
- Assassins - shouted a female voice.
Rodrigo stops, as if he felt the pain of the blows. Doctors and nursing assistants leave the ambulance, neighbor, and run among the public.
- Bastards - a male voice screamed.
Someone lost his life. Around Rodrigo, everyone stops fighting. The veins in his neck pulsing with the naked eye. All lost control. He could not have been uncontrolled, too. Mariane cries. Picks her up and takes her to the sidewalk. Appears to be well physically, but with the body shiny with sweat.
Rafael, accompanied by the brother of Luciane, tells his friend, someone was shot in the face and died, and Fabio, factory worker Metals Fine, was taken in serious condition to hospital. The nurses promised more ambulances. There is an endless cries of "murderers." The military, under order of a lieutenant, back to the barracks. They take no prisoners.
- How did we lose control, Rafael? - Rodrigo repeats, looking at nothing.
Chapter 14
The hospital smells like chlorine and salt from the blood of the wounded. The president's friends notes on stretchers or standing up getting dressings. Mariane, glued to his chest, crying without tears. Journalists are approaching, including the smelly. Your odor of alcohol and tobacco overlaps the salt and chlorine.
Ask, identified the fatality? What can you tell the parents of the boy injured? Intend to do more protests? What about the burning car? What has to say about the change of command of the military brigade in the region to calm the revolt?
Rodrigo feel your mind wander to hear that the command will be changed due to the revolt. Journalists also wonder what will tell the committee members of the MDB will visit the city the next day to investigate. Also unaware of this information.
It is exhaustive:
- We need to arrest the three officers responsible for the death of Gustavo - sentences - find out who killed the boy still unidentified, and yet, the worker who severely injured Fabio.
Mothers of Rodrigo and Mariane probe the ward. The couple was unaware that the two were related. The president asks permission to journalists. In one corner of the room, the couple hears the request of the mothers to come home.
He convinces Mariane to go home with mother "at least today." Dona Ada, mother of Rodrigo, who also asked to come back. Agrees to have coffee at home. Outside the hospital, an elderly woman holding his arm. It is the grandmother of the injured worker.
- Stop it. Stop.
Rodrigo ashamed and hugs.
Parents Gustav approaching. We also want an end to the revolt. Rodrigo said she lost control of the protests. Believes that even without it, the motorcyclers attending the square. Let the parents of the worker and Gustavo talking. Rodrigo feels fatigued.
The hospital smells like chlorine and salt from the blood of the wounded. The president's friends notes on stretchers or standing up getting dressings. Mariane, glued to his chest, crying without tears. Journalists are approaching, including the smelly. Your odor of alcohol and tobacco overlaps the salt and chlorine.
Ask, identified the fatality? What can you tell the parents of the boy injured? Intend to do more protests? What about the burning car? What has to say about the change of command of the military brigade in the region to calm the revolt?
Rodrigo feel your mind wander to hear that the command will be changed due to the revolt. Journalists also wonder what will tell the committee members of the MDB will visit the city the next day to investigate. Also unaware of this information.
It is exhaustive:
- We need to arrest the three officers responsible for the death of Gustavo - sentences - find out who killed the boy still unidentified, and yet, the worker who severely injured Fabio.
Mothers of Rodrigo and Mariane probe the ward. The couple was unaware that the two were related. The president asks permission to journalists. In one corner of the room, the couple hears the request of the mothers to come home.
He convinces Mariane to go home with mother "at least today." Dona Ada, mother of Rodrigo, who also asked to come back. Agrees to have coffee at home. Outside the hospital, an elderly woman holding his arm. It is the grandmother of the injured worker.
- Stop it. Stop.
Rodrigo ashamed and hugs.
Parents Gustav approaching. We also want an end to the revolt. Rodrigo said she lost control of the protests. Believes that even without it, the motorcyclers attending the square. Let the parents of the worker and Gustavo talking. Rodrigo feels fatigued.
Chapter 15
At home, bathe shower for the first time since the revolt began, feeling the sweat discard fat. Take coffee. Was hungry. The mother asked not to turn on the radio, but it does. An announcer says that citizens are shocked by the events of recent days.
- The company supports passofundense motorcyclers, waiting to be discovered the identity of the motorcyclist killed waits for the new command of the Military Police and the committee of state representatives to come to town - the announcer says, citing a letter sent to radio for a group called "Citizens Passo Fundo. "
Rodrigo's eyelids weigh. Dozing in the living room armchair. Wakes up smelling of garlic and smoke. It's the journalist in front.
At first, imagine being a dream, but listen:
- Wake up, son. This boy wants to chat with you.
It is night. Dona Ada apologizes because the child slept in a chair in the room.
- Do not want to interrupt his sleep. You are very tired.
The journalist claims that will be fast. Calls for a private conversation with friends. Dona Ada serves coffee and cake and corn, past, cut up. It is an opportunity for the journalist speak:
- The brigade tried to put down the revolt afternoon. But the motorcyclers still seem strong. Therefore, the Shock troops and the army were allowed to intervene. The commander of the brigade does not hesitate to send shoot or kill. I ask you to finish this confrontation - underscores the journalist, emphasizing fear more deaths and explains:
- There are two types of soldiers who compete for power in the country: the hard-liners who prefer to use torture and weapons to control society, and the Sorbonne, who prepare the country for a return to democracy. The current commander of the brigade and the army, in Passo Fundo, are hard-line. Dangerous. However, the new commander of the brigade, which takes tomorrow afternoon, it's Sorbonne. You need to control the motorcycler until he takes office, and then ask again, the arrest of the killers of Gustav.
- Do not know if I can control the motorcyclers - Rodrigo replied.
Silence. With an unlit cigarette on his lips, the reporter replies:
- Boy, this town everyone knows everyone. The secret to ending the conflict is.
At the gate of the house, next to bushes and flowers, the journalist lights a cigarette and recommends that Rodrigo did not go out at night. Friends of the three policemen accused of killing the motorcycler want to hurt him. Only then realizes that many people said the same during the day.
Bid farewell to.
At home, bathe shower for the first time since the revolt began, feeling the sweat discard fat. Take coffee. Was hungry. The mother asked not to turn on the radio, but it does. An announcer says that citizens are shocked by the events of recent days.
- The company supports passofundense motorcyclers, waiting to be discovered the identity of the motorcyclist killed waits for the new command of the Military Police and the committee of state representatives to come to town - the announcer says, citing a letter sent to radio for a group called "Citizens Passo Fundo. "
Rodrigo's eyelids weigh. Dozing in the living room armchair. Wakes up smelling of garlic and smoke. It's the journalist in front.
At first, imagine being a dream, but listen:
- Wake up, son. This boy wants to chat with you.
It is night. Dona Ada apologizes because the child slept in a chair in the room.
- Do not want to interrupt his sleep. You are very tired.
The journalist claims that will be fast. Calls for a private conversation with friends. Dona Ada serves coffee and cake and corn, past, cut up. It is an opportunity for the journalist speak:
- The brigade tried to put down the revolt afternoon. But the motorcyclers still seem strong. Therefore, the Shock troops and the army were allowed to intervene. The commander of the brigade does not hesitate to send shoot or kill. I ask you to finish this confrontation - underscores the journalist, emphasizing fear more deaths and explains:
- There are two types of soldiers who compete for power in the country: the hard-liners who prefer to use torture and weapons to control society, and the Sorbonne, who prepare the country for a return to democracy. The current commander of the brigade and the army, in Passo Fundo, are hard-line. Dangerous. However, the new commander of the brigade, which takes tomorrow afternoon, it's Sorbonne. You need to control the motorcycler until he takes office, and then ask again, the arrest of the killers of Gustav.
- Do not know if I can control the motorcyclers - Rodrigo replied.
Silence. With an unlit cigarette on his lips, the reporter replies:
- Boy, this town everyone knows everyone. The secret to ending the conflict is.
At the gate of the house, next to bushes and flowers, the journalist lights a cigarette and recommends that Rodrigo did not go out at night. Friends of the three policemen accused of killing the motorcycler want to hurt him. Only then realizes that many people said the same during the day.
Bid farewell to.
Chapter 16
- I love you and want you tonight, love - Mariane whispers on the phone to her boyfriend. Combine to meet secretly in the house of Rafael.
Rodrigo off the pay phone. Walk to the corner. Take the motorcycle off. The penumbra is neck veins throb. It seems that no one follows. Still, it has the feeling of being wrong to leave soon after the last battle, and after warnings it received.
Put on your helmet and Premieres.
Follows by dark streets, not to be identified. You see, the rearview mirror, a car following him with headlights off. Accelerates towards the Brazil Avenue. The car, an Opal, accompanies him at high speed.
The motorcycle comes in an alley in the opposite direction. The Opal follows. Scrape the back on a pole. The motorcycler takes up the avenue still against the grain. Passing by a van and climbs the sidewalk; exceeds a VW that goes on, fearless, and a Commodore which accelerates, causing Rodrigo gets off balance to turn from it. The Opal is still hot on their trail in the next lane.
When other cars do not appear on the track, leaving Opal shots.
The motorcycle breaks down the fences of a building under construction. Rodrigo demand output. None. The Opal Parks remains on the brick work, generating clicks. Down three men with nylon stockings over his head. Rodrigo, behind a mound of sand, off the motorcycle and covers with a wooden plaque. Remains of a cap.
Climbs, leaps, the cement staircase. The trio realizes the motion. Pursue it. Rodrigo skids in the dust of the work. Falls to his knees, ripping the jeans. He gets up and runs, panting. On the fourth floor, hides in a range of work which will probably be a bathroom. The helmet liner is soaked in sweat.
The three realize it at the floor. Rodrigo remains in the shadows. Stay tuned to hear the footsteps of his pursuers. Only now realizes barking nearby. Pour into a fetal position under sacks of cement and lime. One of the hooded approaches. Notes the box and leaves.
The motorcycler waits to hear the footsteps going upstairs. Get out from behind the bags of lime and cement. Probe the floor and wanders slowly up the stairs, trailing cold sweat going from face to neck. The sand and cement stairs to accommodate each step of Rodrigo, causing a muffled noise by barking.
Note that there is someone on the second floor. One of the pursuers might be waiting for you.
- Who's there - a voice rages elderly.
Rodrigo runs to the balcony. Throw up. Your heart pounds and throat latch, by the time it falls on a pile of sand that spreads through the air. Rises, dazed and covered in dirt. Grab your motorcycle. He notes, in hand, the board of Opal and takes off the motorcycle out of work.
The dogs barking inside the building and the old voice cries out:
- Hands up!
The answer is a young voice and familiar;
- We are police. We seek a subversive. Take these dogs from us, cop worthless.
The elder says something inaudible to Rodrigo and orders the dogs to stop barking.
The motorcyclist sets off the motorcycle. Go to the house of Rafael. Dozens of motorcyclers are in the courtyard.
Only the host recognizes and smiles:
- The class was so long that I am not showered in a kennel.
Raphael notes that the friend is covered with sand:
- What happened? Resolved know how you feel a breaded steak? This pants torn, is to ventilate?
Rodrigo laughs. Now believed to be protected. Slaps on the shoulder of his friend and asks them to not tell anyone it's there.
Earlier, Rafael reports: Fabio, the injured worker, is the son of military police.
- Are equal injuring alike - Rafael speaks, really, for the first time that week.
Rodrigo sneaks into the bathroom, where they bathe and remove the sand from the clothes. Just towel and go to a bedroom. Mariane emerges, with dark hair and wearing a loose white shirt. The legs are turned to the show and her lips parted. Her hands wander through the body of her boyfriend.
At dawn, she returns to her parents' home. Leave there a sleepy Rodrigo, questioning themselves in the midst of sleep over who tried to attack him.
- I love you and want you tonight, love - Mariane whispers on the phone to her boyfriend. Combine to meet secretly in the house of Rafael.
Rodrigo off the pay phone. Walk to the corner. Take the motorcycle off. The penumbra is neck veins throb. It seems that no one follows. Still, it has the feeling of being wrong to leave soon after the last battle, and after warnings it received.
Put on your helmet and Premieres.
Follows by dark streets, not to be identified. You see, the rearview mirror, a car following him with headlights off. Accelerates towards the Brazil Avenue. The car, an Opal, accompanies him at high speed.
The motorcycle comes in an alley in the opposite direction. The Opal follows. Scrape the back on a pole. The motorcycler takes up the avenue still against the grain. Passing by a van and climbs the sidewalk; exceeds a VW that goes on, fearless, and a Commodore which accelerates, causing Rodrigo gets off balance to turn from it. The Opal is still hot on their trail in the next lane.
When other cars do not appear on the track, leaving Opal shots.
The motorcycle breaks down the fences of a building under construction. Rodrigo demand output. None. The Opal Parks remains on the brick work, generating clicks. Down three men with nylon stockings over his head. Rodrigo, behind a mound of sand, off the motorcycle and covers with a wooden plaque. Remains of a cap.
Climbs, leaps, the cement staircase. The trio realizes the motion. Pursue it. Rodrigo skids in the dust of the work. Falls to his knees, ripping the jeans. He gets up and runs, panting. On the fourth floor, hides in a range of work which will probably be a bathroom. The helmet liner is soaked in sweat.
The three realize it at the floor. Rodrigo remains in the shadows. Stay tuned to hear the footsteps of his pursuers. Only now realizes barking nearby. Pour into a fetal position under sacks of cement and lime. One of the hooded approaches. Notes the box and leaves.
The motorcycler waits to hear the footsteps going upstairs. Get out from behind the bags of lime and cement. Probe the floor and wanders slowly up the stairs, trailing cold sweat going from face to neck. The sand and cement stairs to accommodate each step of Rodrigo, causing a muffled noise by barking.
Note that there is someone on the second floor. One of the pursuers might be waiting for you.
- Who's there - a voice rages elderly.
Rodrigo runs to the balcony. Throw up. Your heart pounds and throat latch, by the time it falls on a pile of sand that spreads through the air. Rises, dazed and covered in dirt. Grab your motorcycle. He notes, in hand, the board of Opal and takes off the motorcycle out of work.
The dogs barking inside the building and the old voice cries out:
- Hands up!
The answer is a young voice and familiar;
- We are police. We seek a subversive. Take these dogs from us, cop worthless.
The elder says something inaudible to Rodrigo and orders the dogs to stop barking.
The motorcyclist sets off the motorcycle. Go to the house of Rafael. Dozens of motorcyclers are in the courtyard.
Only the host recognizes and smiles:
- The class was so long that I am not showered in a kennel.
Raphael notes that the friend is covered with sand:
- What happened? Resolved know how you feel a breaded steak? This pants torn, is to ventilate?
Rodrigo laughs. Now believed to be protected. Slaps on the shoulder of his friend and asks them to not tell anyone it's there.
Earlier, Rafael reports: Fabio, the injured worker, is the son of military police.
- Are equal injuring alike - Rafael speaks, really, for the first time that week.
Rodrigo sneaks into the bathroom, where they bathe and remove the sand from the clothes. Just towel and go to a bedroom. Mariane emerges, with dark hair and wearing a loose white shirt. The legs are turned to the show and her lips parted. Her hands wander through the body of her boyfriend.
At dawn, she returns to her parents' home. Leave there a sleepy Rodrigo, questioning themselves in the midst of sleep over who tried to attack him.
Chapter 17
The square in front of the cathedral is packed with motorcyclers. Rafael said he had spoken with many who came from nearby towns. Luciane, former girlfriend of Gustav, is also there. It is the first time participates in the motorcycler rally. He has his blue eyes wide and hands on his chest, as if protecting himself from someone.
Rafael again to wonder.
- I will die very old, drinking wine and looking at someone's ass - and muses track - Luciane This is more mysterious medicine bottle.
Hundreds of police surrounded the demonstration, led by Shock troops, newly arrived in the capital. Groups army are in the rear, causing shivers in the few who realize that more deaths may happen that morning.
Some motorcyclers scream denunciations, calling the lynching of three police officers killed and the conductor Gustavo. Rodrigo climbs on the hood of a truck. Note the same men who were at the cemetery to observe it.
Wields a megaphone and calls to the motorcyclers to come home. It booed. Says is necessary to avoid further clashes and deaths. His words are muffled by the crowd. Someone shouted:
- War!
All repeated, rhythmic:
- War! War!
The military approach of the demonstrators. Receive brickbats for motorcyclers. However, they continue to march.
Tanks and army trucks also come close. Rafael and Rodrigo take turns with the megaphone, asking that there be no fight. Of the olive green fatigues rifles vie against the population. Some motorcyclers wielding different types of weapons: knives, barbecue, wood pieces, handguns and rifles. Others kneel asking that there be no confrontation.
Rodrigo despairs, not knowing how to stop them. For a moment, stop and realize a solution.
The president of the signals for motorcyclers Rafael. Mounts on your motorcycle and ranks among the protesters, the Brigade and the army, with his friend next door. It stands on the motorcycle and repeat the megaphone:
- Friend does not harm a friend. Parente not kill parent - say, several times.
Some of the motorcyclers and the military stop listening to this sentence be repeated. Rodrigo note and rush his words:
- Want to talk to you, police, citizens and motorcyclers. This city is still small. Many of those who fight, here in these streets, they are relatives, friends or acquaintances. Since Gustav died, we've beaten. Yesterday, there was even the death of yet unidentified motorcyclist and seriously injured workers in that Fabio, we learned today, is the son of a retired Brigadier. Today, if we fight, should something happen worse.
The silence hangs over the plaza, and audible only the neighing of horses. Rodrigo breath and continues:
- No more fights. Now the blame for the death of Gustavo and what happened yesterday should be tried by military tribunal. Today, a new commander took the Brigade. The three policemen should be brought to a military prison and be judged. State representatives arrive today in Porto Alegre to support us. Let us stop fighting. Let's go home and then to the cemetery to take flowers to our dead.
Some motorcyclers retire there.
The father of Mariane, who leads the army, observes Rodrigo with a smile.
The dark clouds and wind gusts of cold rain advertise. It will be the first in more than forty days, reflects Rodrigo, who does not notice the look of angry Gerson, nearby.
The square in front of the cathedral is packed with motorcyclers. Rafael said he had spoken with many who came from nearby towns. Luciane, former girlfriend of Gustav, is also there. It is the first time participates in the motorcycler rally. He has his blue eyes wide and hands on his chest, as if protecting himself from someone.
Rafael again to wonder.
- I will die very old, drinking wine and looking at someone's ass - and muses track - Luciane This is more mysterious medicine bottle.
Hundreds of police surrounded the demonstration, led by Shock troops, newly arrived in the capital. Groups army are in the rear, causing shivers in the few who realize that more deaths may happen that morning.
Some motorcyclers scream denunciations, calling the lynching of three police officers killed and the conductor Gustavo. Rodrigo climbs on the hood of a truck. Note the same men who were at the cemetery to observe it.
Wields a megaphone and calls to the motorcyclers to come home. It booed. Says is necessary to avoid further clashes and deaths. His words are muffled by the crowd. Someone shouted:
- War!
All repeated, rhythmic:
- War! War!
The military approach of the demonstrators. Receive brickbats for motorcyclers. However, they continue to march.
Tanks and army trucks also come close. Rafael and Rodrigo take turns with the megaphone, asking that there be no fight. Of the olive green fatigues rifles vie against the population. Some motorcyclers wielding different types of weapons: knives, barbecue, wood pieces, handguns and rifles. Others kneel asking that there be no confrontation.
Rodrigo despairs, not knowing how to stop them. For a moment, stop and realize a solution.
The president of the signals for motorcyclers Rafael. Mounts on your motorcycle and ranks among the protesters, the Brigade and the army, with his friend next door. It stands on the motorcycle and repeat the megaphone:
- Friend does not harm a friend. Parente not kill parent - say, several times.
Some of the motorcyclers and the military stop listening to this sentence be repeated. Rodrigo note and rush his words:
- Want to talk to you, police, citizens and motorcyclers. This city is still small. Many of those who fight, here in these streets, they are relatives, friends or acquaintances. Since Gustav died, we've beaten. Yesterday, there was even the death of yet unidentified motorcyclist and seriously injured workers in that Fabio, we learned today, is the son of a retired Brigadier. Today, if we fight, should something happen worse.
The silence hangs over the plaza, and audible only the neighing of horses. Rodrigo breath and continues:
- No more fights. Now the blame for the death of Gustavo and what happened yesterday should be tried by military tribunal. Today, a new commander took the Brigade. The three policemen should be brought to a military prison and be judged. State representatives arrive today in Porto Alegre to support us. Let us stop fighting. Let's go home and then to the cemetery to take flowers to our dead.
Some motorcyclers retire there.
The father of Mariane, who leads the army, observes Rodrigo with a smile.
The dark clouds and wind gusts of cold rain advertise. It will be the first in more than forty days, reflects Rodrigo, who does not notice the look of angry Gerson, nearby.
Chapter 18
A committee of state representatives MDB presents itself to Rodrigo, alongside army major and the new commander of the Military Police. The group promises to support the condemnation of the police. However, be difficult to believe no punishment, even though the motorcyclers create a new revolt.
The family's lawyer Gustavo, present at the meeting, agrees.
The new commander of the Military Brigade greets Rodrigo. Ensures support it "in their struggle for the punishment of murderers." Major, father of Mariane, is uncomfortable to be in that meeting with her daughter next to Rodrigo, and also together with Members of the MDB, but says nothing.
Rodrigo delivery to the commander of the Military Brigade plate number of the Opal chase. The military promised to investigate those responsible for the crime.
In the evening, a lieutenant in the brigade tells Rodrigo that belongs to the owner of Opal cafeteria Noble: Gerson Fernandes. The Brigade has notified the manager to testify at the headquarters of DOPS in the region. Mariane whispers one word.
The lieutenant said that even at dawn, the worker died Fabio. And a few minutes, the body of the dead motorcyclist was identified as a construction worker.
Rodrigo goes to a radio call for motorcyclers to attend that afternoon at the funeral of both, but few come to offer condolences to family members.
The rest of the afternoon is spent in Vera Cruz Cemetery chapels, along with the families of two dead.
The major, at one point close to the couple, to the surprise of both.
- Boy, it will be difficult to find out who fired the two workers. There was a huge uproar that afternoon.
- I know - agree Rodrigo. - All went wrong that day.
At night, Rodrigo and Mariane bid farewell to Members, the major, the new commander of the Brigade and relatives of victims, and go to the house of Rafael. Rodrigo feel emptiness.
- Let's get a few days in Pinhal, love? - Asks Mariane.
Rodrigo sighs. Crestfallen, says no money for travel. She laughs. Knows the difficulties of her boyfriend, so combined remain twenty days in a friend's house. Not have to pay. He is ashamed, but accepts her proposal.
A committee of state representatives MDB presents itself to Rodrigo, alongside army major and the new commander of the Military Police. The group promises to support the condemnation of the police. However, be difficult to believe no punishment, even though the motorcyclers create a new revolt.
The family's lawyer Gustavo, present at the meeting, agrees.
The new commander of the Military Brigade greets Rodrigo. Ensures support it "in their struggle for the punishment of murderers." Major, father of Mariane, is uncomfortable to be in that meeting with her daughter next to Rodrigo, and also together with Members of the MDB, but says nothing.
Rodrigo delivery to the commander of the Military Brigade plate number of the Opal chase. The military promised to investigate those responsible for the crime.
In the evening, a lieutenant in the brigade tells Rodrigo that belongs to the owner of Opal cafeteria Noble: Gerson Fernandes. The Brigade has notified the manager to testify at the headquarters of DOPS in the region. Mariane whispers one word.
The lieutenant said that even at dawn, the worker died Fabio. And a few minutes, the body of the dead motorcyclist was identified as a construction worker.
Rodrigo goes to a radio call for motorcyclers to attend that afternoon at the funeral of both, but few come to offer condolences to family members.
The rest of the afternoon is spent in Vera Cruz Cemetery chapels, along with the families of two dead.
The major, at one point close to the couple, to the surprise of both.
- Boy, it will be difficult to find out who fired the two workers. There was a huge uproar that afternoon.
- I know - agree Rodrigo. - All went wrong that day.
At night, Rodrigo and Mariane bid farewell to Members, the major, the new commander of the Brigade and relatives of victims, and go to the house of Rafael. Rodrigo feel emptiness.
- Let's get a few days in Pinhal, love? - Asks Mariane.
Rodrigo sighs. Crestfallen, says no money for travel. She laughs. Knows the difficulties of her boyfriend, so combined remain twenty days in a friend's house. Not have to pay. He is ashamed, but accepts her proposal.
Chapter 19
Upon returning to work, discovers that Rodrigo will be fired. The shop owner does not want an employee who has been in leading a revolt. But the son of the owner offered him work in the distributor of home appliances from a friend in Porto Alegre. At night, Rafael said he also wants to move to the capital to work with technical assistance from typewriters. They combine live together.
Mariane celebrates. In a few days will also change to Porto Alegre. Will study for the exam and will live alone.
Her father knows the plans of the couple, but does not stop them. Learned to respect Rodrigo, after the speech ended the revolt. Dona Ada was saddened, but include: the child will have difficulty working in the city after the fact.
Rodrigo sell the motorcycle to the brother of Luciane. Give money to his mother, Mrs. Ada, and will save the termination of a contract to use the shop in the capital. Maybe also studying for an entrance exam and, later, you can buy a better motorcycle.
Rafael and Luciane are talking almost every day. She has fun with the funny phrases that tall and lanky, which looks like a stick of matches. They promise to visit every time that Rafael is in Passo Fundo.
No date for now.
- Boy, I love this more than steak with onions Guria - Celebrates Rafael, waving his long arms. The same night, spray-painted the town the phrase that defines the speed with which Luciane and Rafael approach: "When I woke up the lettuces were already planted."
Before you go and sell your motorcycle, Rodrigo Rafael runs some afternoons with the city. In one of those times, pass through a guardhouse. Two police look at us with contempt. A woman, panting, approaches and Rodrigo asks, pointing to a square:
- I was robbed. Please catch the villain.
Pursuing a slim boy and retrieve the wallet stolen. After returning it, Rodrigo asks her why she asked for help to motorcyclers and not the police. And she answers:
- You are justice! You are motorcyclers!
Upon returning to work, discovers that Rodrigo will be fired. The shop owner does not want an employee who has been in leading a revolt. But the son of the owner offered him work in the distributor of home appliances from a friend in Porto Alegre. At night, Rafael said he also wants to move to the capital to work with technical assistance from typewriters. They combine live together.
Mariane celebrates. In a few days will also change to Porto Alegre. Will study for the exam and will live alone.
Her father knows the plans of the couple, but does not stop them. Learned to respect Rodrigo, after the speech ended the revolt. Dona Ada was saddened, but include: the child will have difficulty working in the city after the fact.
Rodrigo sell the motorcycle to the brother of Luciane. Give money to his mother, Mrs. Ada, and will save the termination of a contract to use the shop in the capital. Maybe also studying for an entrance exam and, later, you can buy a better motorcycle.
Rafael and Luciane are talking almost every day. She has fun with the funny phrases that tall and lanky, which looks like a stick of matches. They promise to visit every time that Rafael is in Passo Fundo.
No date for now.
- Boy, I love this more than steak with onions Guria - Celebrates Rafael, waving his long arms. The same night, spray-painted the town the phrase that defines the speed with which Luciane and Rafael approach: "When I woke up the lettuces were already planted."
Before you go and sell your motorcycle, Rodrigo Rafael runs some afternoons with the city. In one of those times, pass through a guardhouse. Two police look at us with contempt. A woman, panting, approaches and Rodrigo asks, pointing to a square:
- I was robbed. Please catch the villain.
Pursuing a slim boy and retrieve the wallet stolen. After returning it, Rodrigo asks her why she asked for help to motorcyclers and not the police. And she answers:
- You are justice! You are motorcyclers!
