Getting Real in Black and White uncovers the largely forgotten magical world of an explicitly sexual Brazil depicted in crudely drawn images and text by one of the best known underground artists of the 1950s and 1960s, the late Carlos Zefiro. His characters, a combination of rogues and members of polite society, reflect the cultural cauldron that is Brazil even today.

Carlos Zefiro is the late, great Brazilian artist/pornographer/banker whose sexual catechisms enlightened several generations of Brazilians since the 1950's. He died in 1994 just after making his identity known to the press.