São Paulo is the most important brazilian state, for it provides one third of Brazil's total gross domestic product. With about the same size of the United Kingdom (244.000 km², crossed by Tietê river) and a population of 41 million people, São Paulo is called "the locomotive", carrying the other 26 federation states.

The capital has about 9 million people, more than many countries. It's an ocean of gray buildings, raised without any logical order. Traffic is overloaded. Pollution turns skies to gray. Violence grows as fast as the slums. The city is, in resume, abandoned by politicians.

If Brazil was a soccer team, São Paulo would be like Real Madrid's Robinho: a great player, who needs care in order to make goals. But, in here, things don't work as they should: the best striker has no attention, obliged to sacrifice itself to help the other (bad) players.