Ciranda, Cirandinha

Episode 1 (1x1)

Data de estreia: Abr 26, 1978

The Suspended Garden of Babylon, introduces the characters and shows how they become friends. The title of the episode refers to the name that Tatiana gives to the balcony of the apartment, full of plants. At first, she shared the place with her boyfriend, Joel (Eduardo Tornaghi), a cultured and charismatic boy, considered a kind of guru by his friends. To everyone's surprise, he suffers a psychotic outbreak and ends up in an insane asylum. It is implied that the trigger of the outbreak would have been the use of drugs, a way of discussing chemical dependence in the series.