In this article we intend to discuss, based on Sandra Werneck's film Meninas, the life and work trajectories of poor young girls in Rio de Janeiro, in the circuits of social vulnerability. The film, by enabling an updating of the researcher's place to think about the youth condition in the present time, provides a "magical" analytical tool. The cinematographic look approaches express a "common time", present in said documentary, which materializes in our research. In these contexts, we ask how is it possible to expand life potency of youngsters who do not lose the possibility of writing their own history.
Poor Youngsters; Documentary; Becoming