Luiz, a sociologist, had his political rights suppressed, during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Also, his wife Ruth had been tortured and killed. So he decides to hide in his niece Natércia and her husband Felipe's country house for a while. Natércia invites the intellectual Marcela and her boyfriend broker Ricardo for a weekend together. Luiz's world is upset and the existential problems of all get entangled, with unexpected results.