The film tells the story of sixteen people in the hottest day of the year in the city of Porto Alegre.

He should flee, he should resist. But this man accepts - no - embraces the fate that comes to him in thundering Dolby Surround.

Betrayed wife of a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After one of his lovers commits suicide, he has his illegitimate son kidnapped and taken to a decadent seaside resort in the country's extreme southern coast. The Senator chooses another former lover to take care of his son, and the two of them become involved beyond that of a mother son relationship.