A gay sauna, not unlike the legendary Continental Baths, is the meeting place for a ragtag group of strangers looking for anonymous sex and
perhaps a friendly smile in this supremely human dramedy. On any given
day at Copa 181, tucked in a corner of the Copacabana neighborhood in
Rio, expect to find Tana, a hardware shopkeeper, and occasionally his
wife Eros, an opera singer who finds acceptance for her incredible gift
at the bathhouse. Joining them are a host of men ready to pay for the
muscle-bound escorts. These include Leo, who is happy with his trans
girlfriend Kika only within the confines of the sauna. Kika, a
housecleaner by day, entertains nightly from the tiny stage and dreams
of an elusive stardom just out of reach. Everyone at Copa 181 falls
under the joint spell of sex and escape from mundane reality the
bathhouse offers, and audiences too will fall under the seductive spell
of this insightful film that underscores the message that family is
where you find it.
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