In this highly stylized Brazilian drama a sax player fondly remembers one wonderful night spent with his life's love and decides to find her again. He embarks upon a quest through the wild streets of Rio to find her. Along the way he meets an assortment of odd urban underworld characters.

Luiza is a romantic, dreamy and delicate young woman married to Jorge, an engineer, a man of good habits and good economic conditions. They didn't know each other well, but got married and Luiza was a good wife, "she was clean and happy as a bird". Everything get changed when she meets a childhood love, her cousin Bazilio. What seemed to be a great adventure will became a nightmare and Luiza will discover the price of her infidelity.