The Miringuava dam is being built to ensure public water supply around the municipality of São José dos Pinhais, Brazil. Changes are inevitable, and many residents of the surrounding area suffer from the conditions imposed by the Government's project.
In a town dominated by criminality, the lives of a police chief and a nightclub performer intersect, leading both of them, and the city as a whole, to a tragic end.
After losing his home, town, work and love, a poet travels far away and eventually finds the way back through parallel dialogues with his absent friends.
João is disenchanted with life and spends his days working at a video store. Without warning, a new client appears and makes him a proposal.