Portugais du Brésil

Christmas in Chicago begins.

Daniel's mother opens the front door near midnight, and she has promised to speak only Portuguese.

Bia's first snow, from the window at four in the morning to a snowball fight in the garden and hot chocolate in Susan's kitchen.

Downtown Chicago, with the towers, the lake, the river and an ice rink.

In a street of shops, Bia follows a smell she knows into a Brazilian bakery, run by a woman from Minas who has lived in Chicago for twenty years.

Christmas Eve in Chicago, and Bia finds out that Americans do almost everything differently.

Christmas in Chicago, from midnight to breakfast.

The day after Christmas, Daniel's sister Emily has a surprise for Bia.

Two days after Emily's secret, a video call to Rio, where Carla and Rafael are on the beach in forty degrees, and Bia, in a reindeer jumper, finds out how much she misses home.

New Year's Eve in Chicago, by a frozen lake, with no waves to jump.

Part Two begins.

Silvia, the estate agent, shows Daniel and Bia round three flats in Botafogo, and the third one, on the eighth floor, has the view.