Celso Felix, a successful radio broadcaster in the metropolis, is disillusioned with his everyday life and leaves his wife and children to live in a small beach town on the brazilian coast.

Four people--Eliana, an adult movie actress who is pestered by a psychotic fan; Ester, a young woman who became pregnant with a village boy; Danilo, a failed deputy who is in love with a hotel maid much younger than him, and his unfaithful ex-wife, Elza--all end up in a small inner-city hotel.