Portugais du Brésil

It's Carnival, and Daniel has lost his friends in the crowd.

The morning after the street party, Daniel tells Carla what everybody did, and then Chicago phones.

Daniel's parents are coming to Rio, and he has less than a month to get ready.

Daniel's parents land in Rio, two hours late and one suitcase short, and meet his friends at the arrivals door.

Daniel takes his parents up Rio's most famous rock by cable car.

Carla helps Daniel plan another day with his parents.

Daniel chooses a restaurant that looks inviting from the street.

After Tom falls at the kerb, Daniel explains his father's injuries at the hospital.

At Sunday lunch, Daniel translates his mother's stories about him as a child.

At the airport on March twenty-fourth, Daniel translates his parents' thanks and says goodbye with their Brazilian friends.

On a Wednesday evening in April, Bia finds Daniel asleep after work and suggests a May visit to her grandparents' farm.

On Saturday morning in May, Daniel and Bia collect their rental car.

Bia drives towards Minas while Daniel reads the map.

A flat tyre and a failed battery interrupt the drive to the farm.

An overnight repair gives Daniel and Bia time to explore an old town.

Daniel and Bia reach the farm on Sunday afternoon.

After a night storm at the farm, Daniel and Bia explain what they were doing when the power went out.

On Monday evening the farm still has no electricity.

At Saturday's town market Daniel bargains for two cheeses, receives a sweet as a gift and pays the agreed price.

Return the repaired rental car on Sunday, deliver Carla's cheese and share the trip at Rafael's cafe.

Carla notices a change when Daniel and Bia enter the cafe on Wednesday.

A week after the cafe conversation, Daniel prepares his first long client presentation in Portuguese.

Daniel misses the dinner he agreed to have with Bia and her parents.

Rafael shows Daniel the keys to a second cafe and explains his business plans.

Daniel and Bia view a sixth-floor flat in October, check the shared costs and move in at the end of November.

Christmas dinner at Dona Lucia's, followed by three personal gifts.

In the quiet days after Christmas, Daniel and Bia look back over the year on their balcony, and the next morning Rafael and Carla do the same at the cafe.

On December thirtieth, Bia opens her notebook on the balcony and makes Daniel write his New Year's resolutions too, and that evening Carla phones about tomorrow night.

It's the last day of the year.

Midnight on Copacabana beach, with everyone Daniel loves in Brazil.