Aracy de Carvalho crossed the Atlantic from São Paulo, Brazil, to Hamburg, Germany. Margarethe Levy crossed the ocean in the opposite direction, leaving Germany for Brazil and making São Paulo her new home. These women are the two protagonists of this book. Coming from very different sociocultural backgrounds, they would probably never have met, let alone become friends. Yet a very specific historical context led Margarethe, like other Jews, to show up at the Brazilian consulate in Hamburg to apply for a visa to Brazil. It was there she met Aracy, the head of the passport department. This particular context was twofold: in Germany, these were the early years of the Third Reich (1933–1939); in Brazil, it was the Vargas Era (1930–1945), with its restrictive migration policy. This book follows the lives and trajectories of a group of Jewish immigrants over a period of about 50 years, with a central objective: to show how each of these women and men acted and reacted to the unfolding plot of an historical moment, with varying degrees of freedom and autonomy, yet never quiescent. It is a story of encounters, challenges, failures, and successes, but above all, movement.