A failing singer's career reaches new heights after he is mistaken for dead and is persuaded to go into hiding by people who have a lot to profit off of it.

'Segundo Sol' takes place in Bahia, in Northeastern Brazil, and tells the saga of Luzia, a simple, hard-working woman who has her life upended after falling in love with Beto Falcão. Throughout the telenovela, she will go a long way to rewrite her own story and bring back together her family, which was torn apart by a series of plots devised by Karola, Beto's girlfriend, and Laureta, a powerful figure in the region's night life.

Luzia is a hard working mother whose life is turned upside down when she falls in love with Beto Falcão, a declining singer who regains his fame after taken for dead. But this romance jeopardizes the ambitious plans of Beto's ex-girlfriend and a devious bawd who will do anything to put an end to the musician's infatuation. In order to save her life, Luiza leaves her little children behind, flees the country and becomes DJ Ariella. Years later she comes back to fight fiercely for a second chance at reuniting her family, unaware she will soon meet again the love of her past and her tormentors.