Derley makes a living by participating in cultural contests and sweepstakes. His wife, Maria Celia, is pregnant and wants that he arranges a real job, generating an intense crisis in the relationship. But Derley will try to prove to Maria Celia that luck is always at his side.

Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.

Small great events of a family summer in the countryside.

Curt Nimuendajú is a German ethnologist who lived in Brazil from 1903 until his death. In addition to having studied and defended the rights of about 50 indigenous peoples, he lived as one of them in each tribe. Nimuendajú died in 1945, in the Amazon, under unknown circumstances.