In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes romantically involved with Lúcia, a fan of his who drags him into a mysterious crime plot.

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

An actress of porn movies is tarnished by ponies and horses: this is the profile of Julia. Disgusted with the world and the people, but unconditional lover of sex and pleasure, she faces every series of difficulties in her life sexual and professional relationship Fight with the family and Claudio, his boyfriend and friend His only friend is another actress, Sandra, who tries to convince her that they are normal and classy women, between a theatrical laboratory and another. Júlia, seeing that the men are all dirty and equal, falls in love with a pony, everything happens in an idyllic setting. such that he goes so far as to quarrel with the pony, his true sexual lover.

Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.

Boy who wants to become independent of the family turns porn star and later a hustler having trouble with his parents and his girlfriend.