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Laéssio Rodrigues is considered the greatest thief of rare books in Brazil. Over the last five years, this documentary has followed his trajectory, which includes four imprisonments. It is not an ordinary story the one of a young bakery attendant, obsessed with antique papers, who starts to live among fine art merchants and collectors and then sees himself in the newspapers’ crime pages. But the decision to narrate it involves dilemmas for which neither Laesio nor the documentary itself were prepared. Although in twisted ways, Laessio evidences the necessity of Brazil to take care of its own History.