In the story, this northeastern woman is personified by Xanxa, chubby and friendly, who without having much hope that her life will improve, will try her luck in the big city. It is in the urban environment that she meets Bob, aspiring actor, only child, rich boy, handsome, spoiled and loved by his father Cachorrão. These two characters Xanxa and Bob, with completely different lives and expectations, live a great love.

Mari Leila, a seventeen-year-old girl, lives a life of agony, contempt and loneliness. Her unrequited passion for Jadson, a young man who is also seventeen years old, gives rise to a feeling of frustration and resentment. In addition to being bullied at the school where she studies, she lives in an entirely dysfunctional family. After great humiliation, she decides to take revenge on all those who belittled her. Devastating feelings motivate her to commit a series of barbaric crimes.

When a con man on the run gets mistaken for a poor church's visiting priest, he is tapped to lead the parish in a grand caroling for the holiday season.