Muslim Africans, brought from present-day Nigeria and enslaved in Brazil, rebel against oppression. Guilhermina tries to free her daughter.

Muslim slaves who lived in Bahia, in 1835, hatched a rebellion against the farmers. Slave Guilhermina, 27, has the necessary conditions to buy the freedom of her daughter and herself, but has the freedom letter denied by the master. She takes advantage of the boiling of events to plan her escape.