A video about the Monument to the Bandeiras [colonial exploration expeditions] by sculptor Victor Brecheret in Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo. The story is not told only with archive images and photographs, but also by people who saw the lump of granite become art. Featured are also other works by Brecheret, scattered throughout the metropolis. Statements by the daughter of the artist, by writer Menotti del Picchia and by Brecheret himself, recorded by Gazeta Radio in the 1940's.