A community in the Brazilian countryside has its order disturbed by the arrival of outsiders: a group of teenagers who find out, the hard way, that the Devil exists.

José, born in São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, wants to learn more about his town's history. To do so, he schedules a conversation with historian Maria Angélica Marochi at the Municipal Library. While they talk, a strange figure walks through the rural landscapes of São José dos Pinhais, searching for a distant past.

In a town dominated by criminality, the destinies of a police chief and a nightclub performer intersect, leading both of them, and the city as a whole, to a tragic end.