In the face of images that are transfigured, inside a mushroom of an explosion already begun, the narration of a rude Latin American poem tells occurrences and impressions of the sixties, seventies and eighties in Brazil and Latin America, with some memory failures. The film was made from the technique of direct animation in the film.

A poor man from the North Zone of Rio, head of a family, Roy struggles in every way to survive and accepts a job as a professional laugher on a TV station; Casimiro de Abreu de Sousa lives in a fantasy world in which he imagines himself to be part of high society. His daughter's wedding awakens in Casimiro the desire to achieve everything he has always fantasized about.