The film depicts the arrival of immigrants in the city of Espírito Santo following the history of Carlos, an Italian who struggles for his place against Hermann Gunter, a German colonist who rules the region.
Filming of the open air theatrical staging of the life of Jesus Christ in the small city of São Roque, state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. The only professionals in the cast are Fernanda Montenegro and Angelito Mello.
After trying to live weakly and always get lost, the cowboy João de Deus accepts the rules of the game: his grandfather Cansanção 'closes' his body and he is employed as a gunfighter of the 'colonel' Trajano.