Ramiro is a 40-year-old lawyer and university professor who returns to Brazil after eight years of exile in France as a result of the military dictatorship. Recently separated from Dora, he meets Elisa, the youngest daughter of a couple of friends of his parents, who will turn his life upside down.

Hilário Pestana, the most famous, funniest and, ironically, saddest Brazilian actor, has died. He has passed through many stages of Brazilian cinema: the chanchadas, the Vera Cruz classics, the pornochanchadas, and even experimental movies. He was beloved by the public and had a gift for laughter, but he only desired to be a serious man.

Two friends try to get to a restaurant for dinner and get lost in the labyrinth of bars, walls and fences in a city.

Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of Cisplatina War (1825-1828), stealing the dead.

Dolores, a beautiful, wealthy and paralyzed woman, hires detective Otávio to follow her husband Inácio and find out what his real relationship is with a young woman named Alice. A story of lies, false leads and obscure motivations, in which four characters of dubious morals try to appear honest to each other.