João Ernesto Ribamar is a corrupt politician running for the presidency. He is in the runoff election, ahead on the polls, when he receives a "mandinga" (curse) from his grandmother, which makes him unable to lie. Now the problem begins: How to win an election by telling only the truth?

Max, controversial and cult filmmaker, go into crisis after knowing the diagnosis about your photophobia, that points to possible blindness. Trans- developed, undertakes a complete overhaul of their artistic, philosophical and affective postures, projecting them on the film he makes.