Before becoming part of history as Maria Bonita, the most important woman of the cangaço, Maria de Déa was a fearless young woman who dared to have a voice in a time when women lived subjected to men’s will and violence prevailed. Companion to Lampião, the famous cangaceiro leader, Maria is surprised by a pregnancy and subjected to the harshest law of the cangaço: forced to give her daughter to be raised by someone else. She lives torn between life outside the law and the impossible desire to raise her daughter. The final years of the cangaço are narrated through the visceral feminine perspective of the cangaceira who became a mother, and the mother who became a legend. Project based on the book “Maria Bonita: Sexo, Violência e Mulheres no Cangaço” by Adriana Negreiros.