For Sao Paulo, the early 1930, the Interim government of Getúlio Vargas becoming a dictatorship. There was unhappy throughout the country, but only if raised in paulistas weapons. The civil war lasted three months. Here, there were about eight hundred deaths, more than the number of Brazilian soldiers killed in World War II. Despite the massive support of the people and the spontaneous enlistment of 45 thousand civilians, the paulistas eventually defeated. The documentary deals with these events and questions the concept still dominant in the civil war that had separatist purposes.