June 15, 2019, an evangelical mega stars Anderson de Kamo de Sousa and his wife,

Flor delisj d'Santos, are taking in an evening drive along Rio's famous Copper Cabana Beach. They need it.

It's been almost a year since Flor de Liche, a glamorous and mysterious singer-comes star of Brazil's blossoming Pentecostal movement leveraged

her flock to win a spot in Congress on a tough on-crime ticket under the country's hard-right

leader Jayar Bolsonaro, and strange things have been happening ever since.

A spate of attempted robberies has hit the couple's home in the high-end neighborhood of Nittoroy and one of their dogs has been poisoned.

Anderson, a slick-haired sermonizer, some 16 years his wife's junior, claims he's been the victim of no fewer than six attempted assassinations himself.

Some point fingers at the couple's 50-odd adopted children.

Others are worried about old friends Anderson left behind to hop into the

ridges limelight. And in Rio, you can never quite rule out all powerful and violent gangs.

Nittoroy might be something of an ivory tower, but it's just a stone throw from the boneyard of the Red Command, a terrifying new force, swallowing

up the city's narcotics industry.

That Beachy drive, therefore, is a chance to leave those worries behind, get some sea air,

and, as it turns out, a little bit of marital fun.

Anderson and Flor de Leish park up between a row of cars and begin kissing.

It gives me a lot, she later says.

I sat on the hood of the car and we had intercourse.

Love, Flor de leash, asked her husband afterwards.

Tomorrow will wake up early, right?

As the couple head home, Flor de Leish worries they're being tailed by a motorcycle.

But after a half hour ride across the Guanabara Bay, their home.

Flor de Lish goes inside to check on the 22 kids still living in the couple's mansion.

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