« In Sao Paulo, Nélida shares a modest apartment with four young women – models like herself who rush after castings and odd jobs. “My father’s black, from a forgotten African origin. My mother’s white, from a distant Portuguese family. I’m like them – I’m Brazilian.”
The Brazilian megalopolis is multicolored, peopled with inhabitants from every corner of the Earth and all regions of the country. It is the city that Nélida has chosen to reside in and she feels at home here.

Extract from Femmes du Monde, Gallimard Edition 2007.