Jorge Chaia

In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in the battle for land and cacao plantations. His plan is to take the place of "Colonel" Santana, taking his wife and money. He starts a bloody conflict, in which many simple people and landowners die.

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.

As the owner of a very famous bordello in Rio de Janeiro gets buried, an old scoundrel remembers his own past among the bohemian circles of the city.

Serafina is a romantic young woman who dreams of experiencing great love. Claude is a wealthy businessman who is in the country illegally. The two make a deal that will transform their lives.

Cecília is in love with Eduardo, a millionaire who doesn't care about their relationship. Ready for a new direction in life, she ends the relationship and goes to work as a flight attendant in New York. Later, she returns to win back her love, but things are not the same anymore.

The story of Domitila de Castro Canto e Melo, the Marquise of Santos, the most famous of the mistresses of Dom Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil.