An engaged couple discovers the corpse of a woman killed by strangulation in the Santo Amaro dam. Inspector Castro and his assistant, Pedro, start the investigation, collecting testimonies, and find a phone number with the name Conceição in the victim's pocket.

The drama of an intellectual married to a rich woman who cheats on him with a gigolo. He doesn't care, finding fulfillment in nightclub bohemian nights, while his wife welcomes her lover at their home. His stepdaughter, seeing what her mother does to her husband, feels sorry for her stepfather and that feeling turns into something more.

The town of Vila Velha is put under a reign of terror by a powerful colonel nicknamed "The Devil", who influences local politicians and hires gunslingers to shoot down those who stand up to him.

An executive inherits a mine and decides to visit it with his wife, with the help of an airplane pilot who knows the whole area. The group gets in trouble with the miners, and the situation escalates when they have to make a forced landing in the forest.

Two rival gangs of bandits, led by the dangerous Orelha de Lata and the Tropeço brothers, are devastating the same region. The film follows the attempts of a pair of two failed friends, the clumsy and silly Flic and Floc, to manage a funeral home that they inherited - and which can be very profitable, depending on the number of murders in the city.

Jandira tries her luck in garimpo, after having an amotional crisis. There, she opens a nightclub of women.