The video explores the issue of samba identity and its discourse on the image of the malandro, focusing on the 1930s and 1940s, when Getúlio Vargas' government entered its second phase, the Estado Novo (1937-45). It presents the way in which the discourses of vagrancy were articulated in the lyrics, their role and historical-social construction, and the ways in which the “labor” aspect of the Vargas government repressed samba malandro through organizations such as the DIP (Department of Press and Publicity), diminishing the demonstrations that took place there and, in some cases, transforming the very philosophy of the samba singer into a “regenerated malandro”.