Gabriel, a closeted gay anthropologist, travels to Rio after his grandmother's death to study sex workers. He becomes seduced by his research subjects and joins them as a sex worker himself.

Gabriel, a 24-year-old anthropologist from a wealthy family from the interior of the Northeast, is gay and in the closet. Following the death of his grandmother, he decides to go to Rio de Janeiro to study the lives of sex workers. Seduced by his object of study, Gabriel will become one of them.