Film Synopsis

The personal and romantic peccadilloes of a Brazilian household come to light in this melodrama. Alice (Carla Ribas) works in a beauty salon and tries to keep her house in order with the help of her mother (Berta Zemel), though with four men in the house it's no small challenge. Alice's husband Lindomar (Zecarlos Machado) is a surly cab driver who is also the father of her three sons, Lucas (Vinicius Zinn), Edinho (Ricardo Vilaca) and Junior (Felipe Massuia). Alice's relationship with Lindomar has been rocky for years, and when she meets Nilson (Luciano Quirino), the husband Carmen (Renata Zhaneta), one of her regular customers, she senses a mutual attraction, and before long the two are having an affair. Alice experiences a mingled excitement and guilt about her relationship with Nilson, and her agony is compounded when she discovers that Lindomar is also having an affair -- with a teenage girl Alice has been mentoring.