An anguished university student in his early 30's ponders the state of his life in light of his relationships with a politicized classmate, a TV actress selling the image of a femme fatale and his bourgeois sister.

Neglected wife tells husband about mysterious deaths occurred by the influence of Iemanjá, Afro-Brazilian deity, goddess of the waters

This feature film produced during the Brazilian dictatorship had a whole context of student uprisings that — when subjected to the censor board in 1969 — went through cuts that made its commercial release unfeasible.