Brazil records around 1,500 femicides a year, most committed by a partner or ex-partner, and this DW report follows the people living on both sides of that statistic. Christiane Gomes recounts her partner shooting her in the face in her own bathroom, the eight operations that followed, and the free reconstructive surgery and survivor meetings that now help her cope while raising her children alone. Carolina Magalhães's family describes finding her dead below her apartment building and their conviction that her partner threw her, a case still working through the courts. In Duque de Caxias near Rio de Janeiro, officer Neuseli Pereira leads a women's protection patrol that checks on women under threat and visits schools to talk to teenagers about the machismo culture police link to the killings. Reporter Bianca Kopsch moves between hospital rooms, police stations, and family interviews to show why tougher sentencing laws haven't slowed the numbers, and what prevention work looks like on the ground.