Countryman Onofre is convinced by his cousin to live in Rio de Janeiro together with him so he can enjoy the delights of summer in Rio.

'Joelma 23rd Floor' faithfully reconstructs the story of young Lucimar, one of the 170 fatal victims of the Joelma Building fire, which occurred in São Paulo, on the morning of February 1, 1974.

Young woman needs money to pay her mother's medical treatment. She gets a work in a bar that is, in fact, a cover for a prostitution net. She is drugged and raped while some photographs are taken, to be presently used as blackmail, to force her to work as a hooker. She accepts her fate but starts a serious relationship with a reporter, to whom she doesn't dare tell the truth. She wants to leave th...

In order to become an actress, young woman tries many jobs, but in all those places she finds a man trying to have sex with her.

'Joelma 23rd Floor' faithfully reconstructs the story of young Lucimar, one of the 170 fatal victims of the Joelma Building fire, which occurred in São Paulo, on the morning of February 1, 1974.