After a fall, intelligent young Plácido becomes a little slow. As an adult he works at a bank and his keen intelligence returns when he drinks the soft drink "Super Plá". Other side stories include the love relationship between Baby Stompanato and Joana Martini, and the life of Majô Prado, a neurotic millionairess and prominent personality living in São Paulo.

Adapted from the homonymous work by Rachel de Queiroz, it presents the saga of a woman against female submission in nineteenth-century patriarchal society.

A story about the fantasies of a married woman who lives in a dream several experiences with partners of both sexes.