Paulo works as a journalist for a print publication and is a man of many women. He has a long-standing affair with a wealthy married woman and also begins a new relationship with Luísa, a young call girl who is his client.

The adventures of a young man who becomes a bandit due to circumstances beyond his control. He seeks revenge for the death of his father, a defenseless victim of a powerful landowner who terrorized farmers in rural Bahia in the early decades of the century.