Aracy de Carvalho is a young clerk at the Brazilian Consulate. For two years, she has been secretly issuing passports to Jews without the dreaded J stamp, which not only won't allow them to travel, but will doom them to the horrors of concentration camps. When newly appointed diplomat, Jo�o Guimar�es Rosa, arrives in Hamburg, the two fall madly in love. Aracy would later be honored by the Yad Vashem with the Righteous Among the Nations Award. Jo�o would be known as the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century