Since these are for the most part produced in Rio de Janeiro and feature characters drawn from the upper-middle class, they tend to reflect a world where good-looking white people in expensively casual clothes flit around in a perpetual summer, attended by maids.

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Swimming along the edge of a reef wall, vast shoals flit at jagged angles around each other.

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