Alors que s’accroissent la colère et le mécontentement devant les injustices sociales, de nombreuses manifestations citoyennes font l’objet d’une répression de plus en plus violente. Le documentaire "Un pays qui se tient sage" invite plusieurs citoyens à approfondir, interroger et confronter leurs points de vue sur l’ordre social et la légitimité de l’usage de la violence par l’État.

The Favela Pacification Program was launched in 2008 to reduce crime and drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In April 2015 however, police shot and killed 10-year old Eduardo in Complexo do Alemão, causing uproar in that community. Alemão and other pacified communities began to realise that the program had become the very thing it was designed to destroy. Taking place in the build to the 2016 Olympic Games, this is the side of Rio that you have never seen before.