Bertha is a widow and lives alone on an isolated farm in the mountains of Santa Catarina. Beginning to face difficulties in keeping the property running, Bertha is under pressure from her son who wants her to move in with him in an upscale neighborhood of Florianópolis. Upon learning of the arrival of a group of Haitians in Santa Catarina, Bertha decides to bring the Haitian Bastide to work and live with her, fueling her son's hostility. The coexistence transforms the working relationship between Bertha and Bastide into a sincere friendship between two people from different cultures who share common ideas and feelings.
After the mysterious disappearance of his father, Joventino, the cowboy José Leôncio becomes a wealthy farm owner in Pantanal. Over twenty years have passed and, bitter-hearted because of his father vanishing and the escape of his wife to Rio de Janeiro with his baby, José Leôncio has the chance to make amends with the boy, now a young man raised in the big city with very different values and habits than his own.
The story of the first 2,300 years of humanity and recounts events exclusively from that period. The plot begins by giving us a greater understanding of why we exist and how we turned from perfection to imperfection. The origin of all social and racial problems is there at the beginning of everything, when via one decision a human being who only knew good and enjoyed it so much also chose to know evil.
Selma Egrei Moretti Faro Silva (São Paulo, March 16, 1949) is a Brazilian actress. Throughout her career, she has received several awards, including two APCA Awards, an Extra Award, and a Mambembe Award, in addition to receiving nominations for two Shell Awards. Due to her beauty, she was one of the favorite actresses of Fauzi Mansur, Cláudio Cunha, J. Marreco, John Doo and Jean Garret, a time when Brazilian cinema, to escape political censorship, opted for pornochanchada. However, in the hands of Walter Hugo Khouri, with whom she made four films, her talent would reveal itself.