The film is "loosely based" on the 1979 memoir O Que É Isso Companheiro? (in English: What's This, Comrade?), written by politician Fernando Gabeira.
Fernando Gabeira founder of the Green Party has been a strong voice for sex workers' rights in Brazil and introduced legislation in Congress to recognise prostitution as a profession.
San Fernando Valley | Fernando Botero | Fernando Alonso | San Fernando | Fernando de Noronha | San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago | Fernando de la Rúa | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | Fernando Arrabal | Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba | Fernando de la Mora | San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca | San Fernando, California | Fernando Po | Fernando Perez | Fernando González | Fernando Saunders | Fernando Hierro | Fernando Flores | Fernando Ferrer | Fernando Amorsolo | Fernando Álvarez de Toledo | San Fernando, Pampanga | Fernando Vicente | Fernando Perez (baseball) | Fernando Ortega | Fernando Meirelles | Fernando Collor de Mello | Fernando | Fernando Valenzuela |
On 13 April 2010 the incumbent president José Alencar signed a decree creating the "National Monument Cagarras" on the initiative of Mr Fernando Gabeira of the Green Party; the islands are therefore a unit of environmental preservation.