A woman has to choose between being a prostitute or posing nude for a painter, in order to finance an expensive surgery for her son, his only chance to survive.
Renata, Nilza and Paula arrive in the big city in search of better opportunities and in an Argentinian casino they meet Adelino, the owner. Loren and Misaki leaves and Adelino rents a mansion with the intention of attracting millionaires to marry them with the girls. They know some men and the girls manage to get married, apparently resolving the group's financial problems. In order to help Adelino, the newlyweds decide to set up a matrimonial agency.
A woman goes to prison for prostitution and loses contact with her 7-year-old son.
André is the powerful owner of an illegal casino and popular gambling ("Jogo de Bicho") on the streets. His gang is in war against the gang of Fiore that is trying to steal the gambling establishments of André. When the prostitute Margot sees her old friend and ex-con Sarja working as a waiter in the casino where she tricks clients, she invites him to stay with her in her apartment. When André, who is gay, sees the handsome Sarja, he falls in love with his employee that becomes his protégée. Meanwhile, Sarja and Margot plot to steal the high stakes on St George's Day and they invite André's henchman Lobão and two gangsters to participate in the heist. Meanwhile Fiore also plots to steal André's money with his gang.
In São Paulo, the gang of the former pimp Marcus abducts another virgin woman late night. They trade the virgin girls with three wealthy sick old men that pay a little fortune to deflower the girls. Then the gang of sex maniacs kills the women and dumps their bodies in the backwoods. The police know that the gang has abducted sixteen women and they have already found ten bodies, but they do not have any lead to find the criminals...
Man kidnaps the daughter of the man who raped and killed his mother.
The dedicated priest Pedro arrives in the city of Serinhaém, ready to reopen the church, closed by the feared local bandit, Rodrigo Napu, and tries to reestablish the Catholic faith of the population, oppressed by the domination of the evildoer.
Prostitute is impregnated by a wealthy businessman. Identical twins are born: Márcio created by the father and the mother another. The latter becomes a marginal, while the first, with the death of his father, inherits fortune incalculable. Upon learning of fortune inherited by his brother, the marginal killer, and takes its place in business. Everything goes well until an employee discovers the drama.
'Joelma 23rd Floor' faithfully reconstructs the story of young Lucimar, one of the 170 fatal victims of the Joelma Building fire, which occurred in São Paulo, on the morning of February 1, 1974.
A humble farmer aspiring for richness leaves his land to become a prospector. He finds a precious gem and hides it from his employer, for which he ends up beaten and tortured. After being released, he kills the perpetrators and flees to the big city. There he finds some criminals who will end up transforming him into the most powerful drug dealer and pimp of the underworld.
Shoeblack keeps the money of two rival gangs.