After years of estrangement, a man decides to come back to his hometown and confront his troubled past.

Ferdinando, a bank employee who came from the north and prospered, buys a car and starts to frequent the south zone of Rio de Janeiro. He meets Lucia, with whom he falls in love, to the point of selling his own car to pay the girl's bill, who says she is very rich and lives in a mansion, but it's all a farce.

The phenomenon of Brazilian oral literature with a study on cordel literature and popular singing.