Zazá

Plot

Zazá Dumont (Fernanda Montenegro) is an eccentric millionaire who has a passion for airplanes. She grew up hearing from her mother that she was the daughter of inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont, a relationship confirmed by his old friend and confidant, Brigadier Pascoal Borato. Zazá's mother had met the young Alberto at a carnival seventy years earlier. Despite this, historical records about the father of aviation do not mention that he had any children.

The plot opens with Zazá wearing a moustache and dressed as Santos Dumont, in Paris retaking his pioneering flight in a replica of the 14-bis, after circling the Eiffel Tower. Drawing attention to the secret project she has in hand: the construction of an innovative atomic plane.

Zazá is also an overprotective mother, she has seven children. All of them are either not good at anything or don't know how to do anything, which Ângelo, her second husband, criticizes. To prove him wrong, Zazá vows to make her children competent and independent. On one of her flights, Zazá sees the clouds form the figure of seven angels and has an idea: hire seven professionals linked to the areas in which her children are interested to be what she calls guardian angels and guide the seven children in business.

The seven "guardian angels" are highly skilled professionals, but with some difficulties and mistakes made in the past, which is reflected in the scheme organized by Silas, the Dumont family's lawyer, who gathers evidence against the angels and keeps them all "on their toes". Silas' intention is to make the angels "seven shadows", in other words, to convince them to work without their names being made public, which means that it is Zazá's children who will take all the glory, giving the appearance that they are intelligent and successful on top of the angels' talent. Silas' main aim is to prevent Zazá's project from getting off the ground and to take over the companies for himself.