5 reals worth of people

Serra dos Milhafres, late 1940s. The Estado Novo decided to impose a new law on the people of Beira: the common lands, which had always been used for the good of the community and from which that community derived a vital part of its sustenance, would now be "expropriated" and used to plant pine trees. A climate of fear settled upon the people, and it was this climate that Manuel Louvadeus, who had emigrated to Brazil years before, found upon his return to the village. A man of experience and culture, due, according to himself, to the many books he had read there, Manuel had a broad vision and a sense of justice that quickly endeared him to the people. He then sided with his people, honest and humble individuals who worked from dawn till dusk but still lived in miserable conditions.
The revolt eventually erupted, and amidst the dead and wounded, everything culminated in a manhunt by the police, leading to many men being imprisoned, accused of being instigators and masterminds of the uprising. The State then displayed all its splendid power. A depiction of the saga of the people of Beira in defending their common lands against the Estado Novo dictatorship, whose first edition would be seized by censorship, earning Aquilino Ribeiro a trial that dragged on for more than two years.