About the life and adventures of a gang of abandoned street kids known as "Capitães da Areia" (Captains of the Sands), in Salvador, Bahia, during the 1950s.

A body was found at the university in the morning. After the investigation team arrives, the gates are closed and no one can leave. Who's the killer? What is the secret Julia wants to tell André? What the woods of the university hide?

Gabriel is installed next to a tree in a noble neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Clarisse accompanies astonished and inert the treatment given to Gabriel, at the same time that leads a stagnant life and dependent of the mother.