Xavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer.
After a chance encounter on the elevator, the lives of Mary Ann, a widowed English teacher, and Pedro, a recently divorced man, intersect against the hot backdrop of Rio de Janeiro.
In the underworld of the city of São Paulo, there is a real business that is making money for a lot of people: fights. The small wrestling clubs attract many rich men who want to bet their fortunes on illegal disputes between poor men, who have to fight to survive and earn a few bucks.
