Arms Crossed, Machines Stopped / BRAÇOS CRUZADOS, MÁQUINAS PARADAS /

Three slates vie for leadership of the Metalworkers' Union of São Paulo, the largest in Latin America, with 300,000 members, and chaired by a "pelego" (aligned with the bosses), since the military coup of 1964. Amid election, hatch the first workers' strikes that would change the country.