Jorge is a 50-year-old gardener and he lives in Rio de Janeiro. Besides taking care of gardens, Jorge is building up for the second time his house in the favela of Vila Taboinha, in the suburb west of Rio. He’s building up alone. The first house he built was in the nearby favela Vila Recreio. He spent 16 years building it up. Then the municipality decided to destroy and remove the entire neighborhood, with plenty of houses, in order to create the TransOeste, a new “essential” road for the Olympic games communication. This is a well-known fact, which happened before to several other people living in the favelas of Rio. This time Jorge decided to fight against the evacuation politic who prefer economical interest of few people at expense of all the people who lives in those areas. Games and events of different type are presented in Rio as the perfect excuse to justify a brutal real estate speculation and evacuation of many areas that were marginalized a few years ago. That’s why Jorge is not just a gardener anymore. He has become an activist of this struggle against the system. Together with him there are a lot of people conditioned by that: Francisca is just an example. A dense support network of experts, academics, lawyers, citizens like Mario and Rafael, and activists in a lot of social projects act to defend human rights. We find and speak with them to learn from their experiences about what a favela is and where it stands in the city.