Catarina is a young woman from the Baixada Fluminense who struggles to adapt to the changes in her life and in the Brazilian political scene. Still mourning the death of her mother and hopeless about her future prospects, she sees her adult life taking shape abruptly. While trying to learn how to grow up and how to deal with all this pressure, Catarina ends up developing a strange obsession with fishes.

While young Sofia improvises rhymes with her friends in the community where she lives, her mother, Marli, organizes the evacuation of the upper-middle class apartment where she worked for most of her life as a caregiver. Old dreams and new plans appear on the horizon on this last day of work.