خلاصه داستان : ویوا کانگاسیرو اسپیدیتو، از قتل عام کل دهکده اش جان سالم به در می برد. یک گوشه نشین به او کمک می کند تا باور کند که شخصیتی شبیه عیسی است. همانطور که "نجات دهنده" اسپیدیتو برای کمک به فقرا که به اسلحه و گروه شورشی خود روی می آورند، می رود. کشف نفت همه چیز را به هم می زند...

Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a young farmer called Espedito; he is nursed back to health by a (crazy?) hermit who thinks he has been sent (= espedito) by God and therefore baptizes him the Redeemer. Espedito/The Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesn’t really understand what he’s doing until he befriends the proverbial European intellectual, a Dutch Oil prospector, who introduces him to important people. Espedito is hired (and of course double-crossed) by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides …