Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.

The woman of a Portuguese truck driver is in love with an ass, the donkey talks and lives in the bathroom and having dinner with her. One day, when he returns home, the Portuguese hitchhike to a black wanderer, but soon expels him and humiliates him out of prejudice. The revenge comes next, when this with Lia Soul taking advantage of the feminine benefits, the black enters in cut his

Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.