Thug, lover, rebel, homosexual, adoptive father, marginal, João Francisco dos Santos reigned absolute in the alleys of Lapa carioca of the 1930s, where he invented his own mythology, becoming the ‘Madame Satã’, borrowed name of the film homonymous film by Cecil B. De Mille, 1930. The story takes place in 1932, when John Francisco’s dream of becoming a star becomes a reality.