Requião is a fifty-year-old widower who cannot have children and decides to adopt four kids: two white and two black. During their childhoods, everything goes well, but the limitations imposed on black people in Brazil become more pronounced, turning into real humiliations. Renato submits to everything, while Miro leaves home to live in the favela. The film, directed by a white man, is considered one of the inaugural landmarks in the discussion of racism and class struggle in Brazilian cinema.

The restoration of “Também Somos Irmãos” was done by the Cinemateca Brasileira using surviving 16mm material.