Prison Beauty Contest

Pirajui is a small city with only 25 000 people and three prisons with 1500 prisoners in each prison. Most of the female convicts in Pirajui prison are because of drug. Some of them did it for money, but the others did it for love, helping their boyfriends or husbands. GRAZIELLA FERNANDA COSTA (45), the director of Pirajui prison, decides to bring back self-esteem to female convicts with organizing a prison beauty contest. The Beauty Contest will give back the female inmates goals, pride and steps towards improving their self-esteem. Prison beauty contest is a welcome diversion from the monotony of life inside the bar. For 4 weeks, convicted women get a chance to transform from poor Cinderella to the beautiful princess.

The beauty contest could be seen as some sort of revolt against the prison uniform. The movie follows three characters JOYCE competing for Miss Spring, ANGEL competing for Mister (transgender category) and SUELI competing for Miss Plus size.