Brazil's military dictatorship ran from 1964 to 1985, and this film asks whether the country can host the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics as a rising democratic power while the men responsible for that era's repression go unpunished. It traces accusations, made both inside Brazil and abroad, that the regime tortured and disappeared left-wing opponents, often with backing from Washington, while indigenous communities were pushed aside and corruption took root in the economy. The film sets that record against Brazil's current image: a population of roughly 193 million, a stable federal democracy, and talk of a permanent UN Security Council seat. It weighs how much of the dictatorship's machinery, and its personnel, survived into the democratic present, and what that unresolved history means for a country positioning itself as a 21st-century power. The case rests less on new revelations than on the gap between Brazil's polished international pitch and the accountability it has avoided at home.