Feature film that brings together three episodes. In "The Signature", a worthless husband tries to rip out his wife's signature to close a deal. "The roof" shows the hardships of a workman who suspects that his wife is dating a trucker. In "The Recipe" a civil servant brags about himself to his friends while his wife goes out with a student.

Tired of her boring husband, secretary Cordélia finds refuge in a love affair with her boss and afterwards, believes she has found true love in the person of a car salesman.

Márcia discovers that her husband is having an affair and decides to take a trip out into an isolated part of Brazil with little human contact. There she finds a black stallion roaming the fields.

An anguished university student in his early 30's ponders the state of his life in light of his relationships with a politicized classmate, a TV actress selling the image of a femme fatale and his bourgeois sister.