When the predatory exploitation of land by large landowners exhausted the soil, the peasants who worked their entire lives in these enriching with their sweat bosses do not have another solution. Homeless, poor, defenseless, will take to the streets for big cities in the South with the hope to find in their factories piece of bread deprived the greed of some rich. This is exactly the epic journey of a people record in this novel the great Brazilian writer Jorge Amado. And such is the art and the breath of the pain of these people are once ours.