Biography of Patrícia Galvao, aka Pagu, a legendary personage, muse and activist of Brazilian Modernism in art, during the 1920s until the 1940s. She shocked the society of her time, but charmed artists such as painter Tarsila do Amaral and writer Oswald de Andrade, having had an affair with the latter. For her political engagement, she was constantly harassed by Brazilian authorities.