In a conservative and swampy Brazil, a birthday party is held at a fatherless home. Joana, the birthday girl, wants to get her period soon. Her brother, Dudu, wants his father home. When teenager Verbena arrives unannounced, all the wishes can come true. But not without some pain.

At a construction site, a delivery man lunches with his bricklayer friends and watches a crossfire between the engineer and the foreman.

On the eve of leaving the informal work sector and being hired, Samuel is haunted by his work instrument: the engineer mascot.