Ulisses has failed in his professional life, but leads a happy life with his wife Ângela and their two daughters. Until the day he is introduced to Bárbara, a very beautiful woman living in Rio de Janeiro. Ângela becomes her friend and gives her the dress Ulisses had given her. From then on, marital problems arise, and he becomes increasingly attracted to Bárbara.—[email protected]

In a long flashback, mother and two daughters remember how and when husband abandoned family, searching for adventure and a passsion for another woman,in the province of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Story mixes what seems a spell put on a dress given away, a false identity and a land conflict.—Elie Politi

Three years after their father left the family, two girls find an old dress ("o vestido" - the title; the dress in Portuguese); one they've seen their mother crying over. They ask for a final explanation about this dress from their mother. Thus the mother begins a series of revelations about the dress, and by extension - past family history, and the lives of all involved in this three year old story, which is not over yet.—Gonz30