A family and household are frozen after a shipwreck in 1886. They wake up in today's São Paulo, and must deal with temporal and cultural shocks.

The Sabino Machado family and their slaves and entourage spend years frozen in the ocean after a shipwreck in 1886. They wake up gradually, one by one, and must learn to deal with the technology and the human idiosyncrasies of the present time. Among cultural and temporal shocks, "the frozen ones" encounter improbable friendships, romances, and greedy people while fighting prejudices that not even time could eradicate.