The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime.
Mário and Cláudia are going through a divorce process. When Cláudia accepts job in another country, situation will lead parents to reassess many of their certainties and question the effects on the happiness of their children.
When Carlos (a peculiar yet successful writer) starts watching the young couple next door from his window - seeking inspiration for his next book - he begins to witness increasingly odd events.
In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a petty chauffeur, 26 years younger.