A depressed hotel servant goes through a rough night, while his story's interlaced with a number of situations experienced by the hotel guests.

Unhappy with her marriage, woman looks for sexual satisfaction by any means.

A poor man from the North Zone of Rio, head of a family, Roy struggles in every way to survive and accepts a job as a professional laugher on a TV station; Casimiro de Abreu de Sousa lives in a fantasy world in which he imagines himself to be part of high society. His daughter's wedding awakens in Casimiro the desire to achieve everything he has always fantasized about.

Two young women with different social backgrounds have a lesbian relationship. The real problems begin when one of them also gets involved with a man, a journalist.

A circus clown's life spirals out of control when his wife, a trapeze artist, dies during a performance, and, to his chagrin, their son vows to follow in his mother's footsteps.

The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributes" in order to get power.