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How can a game of football change a nation's destiny? How can the passion for another country's national team surpass the personal and collective conflicts of everyday life? Now imagine the Five Time World Champion Brazilian team playing with Haiti's national team to promote peace in a country going through a period of atavistic misery. UN troops, led by Brazil, try to maintain peace and order. The informal economy rules the streets. Hunger rages. Only music and faith, seems to keep them alive - and football. In this environment, the presence of the Brazilian National Team served as an excuse for hope and euphoria - and it is important to ask, what other purpose will it serve? What kind of peace can come out of this match? From any perspective, it was a unique encounter, of football with politics, of superstars with simpletons, of countries with similar histories and societies. An inexplicable passion that Haiti feels for Brazil that does not need to be understood, but incorporated. After all - as a common Haitian might say - "After seeing Brazil play, I can die!" fe4 Written by Ortiz, Caito How can a soccer match change a nation's destiny? How can the passion for another country's national team surpass the personal and collective conflicts of everyday life? Now imagine the Five Time World Champion Brazilian team playing with Haiti's national team to promote peace in a country going through a period of atavistic misery. UN troops, led by Brazil, try to maintain peace and order. The informal economy rules the streets. Hunger rages. Only music and faith, seems to keep them alive - and soccer. In this environment, the presence of the Brazilian National Team served as an excuse for hope and euphoria - and it is important to ask, what other purpose will it serve? What kind of peace can come out of this match? From any perspective, it was a unique encounter, of football with politics, of superstars with simpletons, of countries with similar histories and societies. An inexplicable passion that Haiti feels for Brazil that does not need to be understood, but incorporated. After all - as a common Haitian might say - "After seeing Brazil play, I can die!" Written by Ortiz, Caito On August 18, 2004, the Brazilian and Haitian National Soccer Selections played the "Game for Peace", in Port au Prince. That day, the five-time world champions, attending to an invitation by the Prime Minister of that nation so devastated by misery, took 90 minutes of temporary peace to the poorest nation of the Americas. It was a historical journey, with repercussions for the future of a country that has gone through 33 coup d'etats in its 200 year history as a free land. The documentary entitled "The day Brazil was here" is an emotional registry of this soccer match. Sixty hours of footage were recorded over a fifteen day period. They show the delirium of an extremely poor people when before their idols. They also show the emotion felt by the kings of soccer, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho Gaúcho, Roberto Carlos and the rest of the team when they see this crowd so anxious for water, food, yet above all, a yellow jersey with the five stars embroidered on the chest. Politics and sports, history and solidarity, walk side by side in a documentary that intends to answer a simple question: can a soccer match truly change the fate of a nation? In the tiny Sylvio Cator stadium, with a capacity for only 13,000 fans, a rare political and sport moment was lived. During the days that preceded the match, and even after the Brazilian soccer stars' short stay in the country, Haiti enjoyed some special moments. A chimera in a nation at war, whose peace is maintained with the aid of UN peace forces, the so-called "blue helmets". The parade of Brazilian athletes on board military tanks along the 15 kilometer route brought the nation to a standstill. It was also an extraordinary diplomatic move by Brazil and its declared ambition, now with the ex-laborer Lula as President, which is to occupy a permanent seat in the UN General Assembly. And ultimately, it is an unprecedented document, at the heart of current affairs, in the difficult everyday life of a wounded nation, which portrays the Haitian people's passion for Brazilian soccer. The scenes show how the fascination for Brazilian soccer, born in 1958 with the team of Pelé, Garrincha and Didi, has left the field and now dominates everyday life in homes with crumbling walls and open sewers. Written by Prodigo Films