Jorge, a military police captain in Rio de Janeiro, hallucinates about his own death in a dream. Deeply shaken, he jeopardizes the fate of his fellow officers. In a period of 24 hours, the captain and his lieutenant, Cristino, sergeant Tião, and soldier Marcelo clash in a tangled web in which good and evil become indistinguishable.

Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support their ten-year-old son. He mostly works nights, so in addition to his encounters with a colourful variety of customers, colleagues, cops and others, he must cope with loneliness, fatigue and new faces in his life.

Vidigal Hill, 1977. A runaway group of bandits engage in a complex love triangle in the brink of the news that the corrupt Rio de Janeiro mayor decided to make everyone move out of Vidigal, aided by police forces.