There are those who sleep. There are those who don't. Tormented by insomnia, lack of air, incontinence, intestinal gases, rheumatic pains, nocturnal coughing fits, bronchitis, remorse, fright. Sleepless nights, easy victims for backyard demons, invisible from the street. Nobody sees it, but the backyard ghost is there, attentive. Nobody can free themselves of evil!
Juca, a black kid, sees his friends and his mother being hit by his stepfather, without being able to do anything against it, but when he knows that he is the great-grandson of João Cândido, the leader of the sailors rebellion against the chibata hits adopted by Brazilian Navy till 1910, he takes an extreme attitude towards changing the course of his life.
A couple is charged with murdering a friend after discovering a fraud scheme at a data-processing center. They hide in a van, where they set up a clandestine station, so they start to report the fact, seeking to mobilize public opinion until it becomes a national scandal.