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Rio de Janeiro, 1960.
Antônio was married to Nilza, with whom he had a 4-year-old daughter, Tânia, or Taninha, as she was lovingly called by her parents. In the eyes of neighbors and relatives, this was an ordinary family, even a happy one. In the eyes of Neyde Maria Maia Lopes, that image of the father, mother and daughter was a picture frame that needed to be destroyed forever.
Neyde and Antônio were lovers for a few months. They had met at the famous Central do Brasil train station, the former Pedro II station. Between one look and the other, the two engaged in a romance in which Antonio hid his real marital status. Some time later, he decides to tell Neyde that he was a married man, and made a promise that he would end his relationship with Nilza to be with her.
Time passed, and Antonio did not ask for a separation from his wife. Neyde continues to play the role of lover, the role of the other, a character she decided she would no longer live. Neyde did not want to be relegated to the shadow of Nilza, the de facto wife. She would have made the most tragic decision of all: if he doesn't stay with me, he's not going to live with her.
Neyde gets closer to Nilza, with whom she becomes a friend and confidant. With the trust of the lover's wife, Neyde meets Taninha, the couple's daughter, the symbol of what she would never have with Antonio. The symbol of a complete family. Neyde, then, has the most cowardly courage of all. On a day like any other, she picks up Taninha at school, claiming to have been sent by her mother.
Neyde goes with Taninha to a slaughterhouse in the Penha neighborhood, in the north of Rio de Janeiro, where he shoots the 4-year-old girl, and then sets her body on fire to try to hide the corpse. Neyde just didn't count on a flaw in her story: slaughterhouse employees see her leaving the place and notify the police. Already looking for their missing daughter, Antonio and Nilza receive the news from which they were fleeing: their little girl had been attacked by what would become known as the Beast of Penha…
As fate does not respect individual whims, Fera da Penha didn't get what she wanted most. Antonio and Nilza did not separate, they maintained their marriage and had two other children.
Neyde was arrested, served 15 years in prison, and was released for good behavior. Today, she lives in seclusion somewhere in the big wonderful city.
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