Five actors meet in a house on Christmas Eve to make a movie. While waiting to have dinner with someone they don't know or if they're actually going to show up, they reveal secrets and look back on their lives. From this encounter, joys, frustrations, absences and passions surface at the edge of tension.

A family invites the office staff over for dinner, but the housekeeper, Dada, doesn't show up. They have to serve the guests, without even knowing where the wine opener is in their own kitchen.

At the same time that Elisa says goodbye to Heliomar, she meets young Michel.

Late in the afternoon, a student and a construction worker sit on the edge of the bay and leave traces on the landscape.

Manuel is a crafty cowboy and swindler who lives to serve his two great loves – his fiancée Das Dô, and his mule Beija-fulô – and his business of selling unsound horses to suckers. The killer Targino arrives in town looking for a horse. Thinking that he is being clever, Manuel sells a sick horse to the assassin. Targino swears that he is going to kill Manuel, and dishonor Das Dô’s reputation after he’s dead. Under pressure, Manuel calls on the magic of Toniquinho das Pedras to protect his body. However, the witchdoctor demands the mule Beija-fulô as payment. Manuel, sees himself in the dilemma between having to choose between his fiancée Das Dô, and the mule, Beija-fulô.