A raw, poignant story of a band of Brazilian street kids who survive -- if they can -- by their wits alone. Asphalt Angels is a realistic depiction of the life of street children in Brazil seen through the eyes of Alex, a street child of 13 in Brazil who has been kicked onto the city streets by his stepfather after his mother dies. He is alone and scared. Unfortunately, jobs that provide enough money for food and shelter are nonexistent. He eventually falls in with a surrogate family of street urchins who call themselves the Asphalt Angels, headed by two older teens, Roy and his girlfriend, Duda. They hang out together for protection, supporting themselves through petty thievery and sniffing glue for a cheap high. This is the story of how he
