There are many concurrent plots in this film. The main one being the one in which a desperate guy kills his parents with an open razor and then goes to the movies. At the same time, other ...
The story of Paulo Honório, a poor kid who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.
Pressed by circumstances, a middle-class accountant accepts a job as a caretaker of a country house.
In the 1930s, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a young woman promised to marry a colonel's son decides to run away with the man she loves.