Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.

In 1856, the emperor Dom Pedro II lived a marriage of appearances with Teresa Cristina, with whom he was forced to marry at a young age by his parents' political alliance, having two daughters with her: Isabel and Leopoldina. He truly loves Countess Luisa, a cultured and time-ahead woman who fights for the abolitionist cause and women's rights, married to Eugenio, the emperor Napoleon's cousin. At the same time there are sisters Pilar and Dolores: the first went to a convent after her mother's death in childhood, growing up among books and dreaming of studying medicine - inspired by the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first doctor in the world -, while the second stayed at home to take care of her father, Colonel Eudoro, growing up repressed, illiterate and without vanity.

In a quiet town, two boys find a woman's mutilated body. After becoming suspects at first and realizing there is a mystery behind that murder, they decide to investigate the case with the help of an enigmatic old man. When a vertiginous spiral of violence is triggered, conspiracy begins to emerge and the boys must discover the truth as soon as possible in order not to become the next victims.

Every year, in the middle of the Brazilian holiday season, CAOSS is held, a surfing championship that attracts thousands of tourists and hundreds of young people in search of the same dream: to become professional surfers. The event is very important because the team that wins the tournament has the passport secured to continue competing professionally on the official circuits. At the beginning of the series Rafa (André Lamoglia) escapes from the summer course imposed by his father, a great businessman, to pursue his dream of being a professional surfer and win the CAOSS tournament. Thus he manages to form his team made up of Billy (Bruno Astuti) and Jojo (Marino Cangucu) and which will eventually be called Juacas. The Red Sharks team will be the main rival in this championship.

Rafael is a young man who is tired of only reaching guys who say they are straight. Not wanting to go through this kind of embarrassment anymore, he gets a device that will put an end to all his doubts, the gaydar.