Recently turned into a widow, Alice goes to the country to think about her life. There, she's courted by Luis Carlos but falls in love with Marta. However, Jumbo, a horse, also arouses strange and erotic feelings in her mind.
The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor.
A family leaves a small town in the state of São Paulo to move to Rio de Janeiro when the father gets a job promotion there. In Rio, everyone of them will fall prey to the city's sinful ways.
