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Rio de Janeiro is a city blessed by God and cursed by the devil. It has the most beautiful coastline, with magnificent hotels and high-rise buildings standing on the shore, entertaining tourists from all over the world. There are also the dirtiest slums here, which stand dazzlingly on the hills in the city center. They have no running water or stable power supply. People live in crowded houses like matchboxes and are always facing the threat of gunfights, drugs and death. Nemu, the "power holder" of Rocinha, the largest slum in South America, is also the number one drug lord in Brazil who is most wanted to arrest. This is a story about the slums of Nemu and Rocinha, a story about Rio de Janeiro, the "City of God" and the underground drug economy, and a record of decades of political, economic and social changes in Brazil. The unequal situations and difficult choices faced by the characters in the book concern each of us.