After years lost in a ingrate job, Hugo decides to take a drastic measure: to compensate for the time he lost, he will rob the bank in which he worked all his life. Everything goes well in the execution of the plan, but the appearance of the firm's cleaner can put everything to waste.

Glorinha, a middle-class 15 year old girl, always thought her mother Judite had killed herself, and that her father Gilberto has gone crazy as result. Her friend Nair takes her to a high-class bordello, where she wants to work. When uncle Raul, who raised her, discovers her prostitution, he decides to finally tell her all the truth about her parents' story.

Follows the decadence of an incestuous oligarch family in a rural Brazilian household through the years during the early 20th century.

The dictator of a small Caribbean island receives the New York Times daily, sent by a nephew. Through the newspaper, he gets in touch with the world. Guerrilla groups try to neutralize this information system.

A long time public servant is told by an angel that he will die at midnight of the following day.

The fairy tale story of Maria da Graça, a small town girl with big time dreams of becoming a singer, who moves to Rio de Janeiro to pursue her ambitions.

The idiosyncratic adventures of a group of individuals who share the same house.

The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor.