Kidnapping is big business in Brazil.

Kidnapping is big business in Brazil, the country with the world's second-largest gap between rich and poor. In São Paulo, where, on average, someone is kidnapped every three days, WIDE ANGLE explores a twist in Brazil's dangerous crime fad as the mothers of five celebrity soccer players are abducted and held for ransom in a six-month period. The film follows São Paulo's anti-kidnapping squad as they risk their lives investigating these kidnappings, and also profiles two kidnappers who explain the rationale behind their life of crime.