Renata, a millionaire's daughter, shares an apartment with a girl who's proud of her virginity. Virgínia, a single mother, works as a secretary for a big company. Vilma, Raul's fiancee, for whom she pretends to be a virgin, is a bank clerk.
Maria, a countrywoman, leaves for São Paulo, where she becomes an industrialist's lover and meets all kind of people but, dissatisfied, she returns to the country to meet her family again.
Antunes Filho's TV adaptation of Consuelo de Castro's play "Implosão" where the author draws a parallel between the first implosion of a building in São Paulo, the Mendes Caldeira building, in November 1975, and the collapse of a marriage, suffocated by economic needs and relationship problems...