 In Baixada Fluminense, a proletarian and large area in the State of Rio de Janeiro, the fifteen years old Eliane (Fernanda Torres) lives with her neurotic and frustrated mother Eunice (Marieta Severo), and her sick father Milton (Reginaldo Farias), an earlier retired sergeant of the army and they do not have a good relationship at home. When Eliane meets Otavio (Carlos Augusto Strazzer), a divorced man eighteen years old older than Eliane, and they fall in love for each other, her family presses Eliane in such an unbearable situation that she runaway from home to another city.