In this retro comedy, Renan wants to return being single without having to break up with his girlfriend Taís, whom he loves. Little does Renan know that Jorjão, his dashing genetics professor, has the solution to his problem: human cloning.

Miguel, a 7-year-old boy, lives with three generations of estranged women in an old house. Among them is his mother who, after a traumatic divorce, distances herself from the boy. Miguel takes comfort in Carmen, an enigmatic Venezuelan immigrant who works as a maid for this Brazilian family. Carmen becomes an ambiguous mother figure for the boy, who develops an intimate and unusual bond with her, introducing him to a universe in which the real and the imaginary intertwine.