Two brothers, one with dyslexia, the other with difficulty accepting his brother as he is, discover the meaning of brotherhood as they move to a dead-end street after their father's death.
When Joaquim, a frustrated writer living in the 70s, finds out his recently wed wife is cheating on him, he starts writing a suicide letter and prepares a surprise for his wife to find when she gets home from her lover's arms.
At the end of the brazilian military dictatorship, a bored elevator operator gets her dull work day shaken by the pursuit of marxist revolutionaries by two army generals.
