An elite battalion of police officers, known as BOPE, are pretty much the only thing that the drug dealers living in the favelas of Rio De Janerio fear - aside from each other. But the man who commands them wants out; the unrelenting brutality of his job is beginning to fracture both his mind and family life. The Captain has one goal: to find a worthy replacement, untainted by the corruption that riddles his fellow colleagues, and the potential shows itself in the form of two very different but equally committed childhood friends. Elite Squad is an unsentimental, breathless and brutal action-drama whose heart lies firmly with the fraternity of the enforcers not the dealers. Written by the same man who gave us ‘City of God' this is a similarly stylised dramatisation of an ugly world, only the perspectives are different.