Highway, recently constructed and still unpaved, they meet native Brazilians in Bolivia. Some ask for a ride to the next major city, Altamira. The most important of the natives is their ruler, who says "my kingdom ["audiencia"] is over." His elderly father attempts to make conversation about the President of Brazil, as if they were equals, both heads of countries. The natives are anything but unhappy with their state of affairs. They want to be civilized. They hear news on a battery-powered radio (commercial short wave radio, as short waves travel further than the familiar medium wave AM broadcast band). We see their excitement at their first encounter with frozen food: a bar of ice cream on a stick, like a popsicle. The mother is dying to fly on a plane, a labor recruiter sends those recruited off by jet, and a small commercial jet makes a cameo appearance taking off from the airport of the small Altamira. (Like in Alaska, settlements are far from each other, roads poor or non-existent, so communication is limited to boats or planes.) Cast José Wilker – Lorde Cigano (Lord Gypsy) Betty Faria – Salomé Fábio Jr. – Ciço Zaira Zambelli – Dasdô Príncipe Nabor – Andorinha / Swallow Emmanuel Cavalcanti – Prefeito / Mayor (as Emanoel Cavalcanti) José Márcio Passos – Assessor Prefeito / Mayor's Assistant Carlos Kroeber – Caminhoneiro / Truck Driver Joffre Soares – Zé da Luz Rodolfo Arena – Lavrador / Peasant Aderbal Junior Carlos Lagoeíro – Sertanejo Catalina Bonakie – Viúva / Widow (as Catalina Bonaky) Rinaldo Gines – Chefe Índio / Indian Chief Marcus Vinícius – Empresário Music Chico Buarque made a minor hit record from the title song, "Bye Bye Brasil", whose lyrics do not precisely match the action in the film, as if the song had been ordered before the script was written. It matches some basic facts: the voice is that of a man, without a girlfriend nearby; he goes to Belem and Maceió. But the song also has him in places the movie does not visit: Ilheus, Tocantins, and he contracts an "illness" (doença, probably gonorrhea), in Ilheus, "but now everything's OK", and again in Belem, "but I'm almost cured". Now the progress is pin-ball machines ("fliperama") and skates. But, inexplicably, he took the coastal passenger boat ("a Costeira", the Coastal [boat]), important in the pre-airplane era, but the Companhia Nacional de Navegação Costeira