This is the fun story of the mischievous, adventurous and conquering Leléu and the dreamy Lisbela, who loves watching American movies and dreams of movie heroes.

Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man who travels from town to town selling all sorts of things and performing as Master of Ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Inaura, a sexy, beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman in the area. The hitman find out about his wife's affair and pursues Leléu, who must leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.—[email protected]

In Northeast Brazil, Leléu is a nomad rascal, traveling through different small towns, cheating people and having one-night stands with local women. While escaping from Inaura, who has fallen in love with him after a brief affair--and from her cuckold husband hitman Frederico Evandro, who wants to kill him--Leléu arrives in a small town. There, he meets Lisbela, Tenente Guedes' dramatic-film-loving daughter, who is about to marry her fiance Douglas. As in a film with a happy ending, they fall in love with each other.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil