Alice

About

The series tells the story of Alice, a 26-year-old woman who travels from Palmas, Tocantins, to São Paulo due to her father’s unexpected death. A trip that was supposed to be short, turns out to be necessary in order to resolve the red tape issues related to an inheritance and winds up extending itself as well as becoming a new framework for the character’s life. In São Paulo, Alice finds a world diametrically opposed to the pace of life in Palmas - a frenetic and intense city, a mosaic of new possibilities, new paths and new experiences.

From Palmas, Alice brings a foreseeable future where everything is already set. She lost her mother when she was a second-year university student at the school of communications. She lives with her grandmother, Glícia, and her younger brother, Duda. After graduating, Alice works as a tour guide at the Palmas Office of the Secretary of Tourism. She is about to move in with her boyfriend, Henrique, in a small apartment in downtown Palmas. The loss of her father is going to cause life to be more chaotic for Alice, who had a well-planned future but suddenly finds herself the victim of chance. Arriving in São Paulo, the stability of her existence is challenged as she is exposed to various paths and discovers that the world extends beyond the boundaries of Palmas. She is seduced and swallowed up by São Paulo. While getting lost in the city, Alice finds herself much more lost than she imagined. She winds up settling in the city, where she seeks to find herself, forever changing the course of her life.

At the same time that Alice discovers the outlines of this city that welcomes and repels her, she undergoes a process of inner discovery of her identity, reencountering the stories of a father whom she hardly knew and growing closer to a half-sister she wishes to get to know. The story’s drama builds gradually, as Alice plunges into her still somewhat nebulous, rough and indistinct internal reality.

At the end of this journey, Alice overcomes the obstacles that the city imposes on her and becomes a more confident and mature woman, affirming herself by achieving her independence, both financially and emotionally. As we accompany Alice on her experiences in São Paulo, we also get a glimpse of the everyday life of a restless metropolis – a cosmopolitan, contemporary, intense city that is both the setting for and a character in our story. Soon we will be immersed in a delicate study of the human relationships that are established in this effervescent megalopolis.

The series is a slice, a fragment, of this metropolis and its countless possibilities. Alice is just one more among many other anonymous souls in search of answers, love and challenges. She is a young woman who wants to live life at full throttle, discover pleasures, chalk up successes and fearlessly face her failures.

Contrary to most of the trends in Brazilian television dramas, where conflicts arise from elements extraneous to the characters, in this series the viewer will witness the internal reality of Alice and of the other characters through their inner conflicts. In this universe, there are no villains and no heroes.

The series will cast a loving look at a world that is not built on a value judgment of its characters. There are no heroes or villains, no good or bad guys, just human beings, both good and bad. In this sense, São Paulo also plays a role as a central character, as the place onto which Alice projects her feelings. Often, the city will be seen and felt from her point of view, thus revealing the leading character’s state of mind.