Summer 1996, north-east coast of Brazil. Tamara is enjoying her last weeks at the fishing village she lives in before departing to Brasilia for her studies. One day, she hears about a teenager nicknamed Heartless after a scar she has on her chest. Over the course of the summer, Tamara feels a growing attraction for this mysterious girl.

Uriel is an anxious film student who is always searching for love, but never finds it. Returning home to shoot his first film, a story about Cupid's quest for love, he must deal with his feelings for Bruno, one of the actors, and Pedro, with whom he has a complicated relationship. As anxiety builds and romance falls apart, fiction and reality begin to blur.