The first chapter focuses on Aracy de Carvalho’s movement as she emigrates from São Paulo, with her six-year-old son and settles in Hamburg, leaving her first husband behind. I follow her 1934 journey—what she left behind, and what she found upon arriving in a Germany that was already under Nazi rule. I highlight the contrast between these two realities—simultaneous yet so different, a fact that she must not have been oblivious to. I also examine the negotiation process that preceded her admission by the Brazilian consulate in Hamburg which attested to her desire to remain in Germany, a key element of her migratory experience and a prelude to this story. I also describe how she met João Guimarães Rosa, as he began his diplomatic career in Hamburg in 1938, and the birth of their romance. Finally, I engage in dialogue with other authors who have studied Jewish immigration to Brazil during the Vargas Era, examining the implementation of a restrictive immigration policy toward Jews. The application of the new rules was, at the time, the daily work of the members of Brazilian diplomatic missions in Europe, such as Aracy herself.