Two middle-class brothers lose their parents in an accident and have to start working. The boy gets a job in a supermarket, and gets involved with a prostitute. The girl finds herself a job in a restaurant, whose owner just wants to have sex with her.

The life and death of Colonel Orestes, a decadent coffee farmer, spanning three generations between despair, hallucinations, and the help of three different wives. The city, the synthesis of modernization, definitively buries the oligarch making buildings on the ground that had previously made the character's prestige.

Suspected of murdering his girlfriend, man is judged by public opinion and gets implicated in a serial killing case.