Francisca and Tamiris are two black women domestic workers who work for Reinaldo Plirtz, a greedy millionaire from São Paulo. Francisca is finishing college and researches the history of Samba and Carnaval in São Paulo; Tamiris, on the other hand, has not finished her studies and belongs to the third generation of domestic workers in the same family, while Francisca's research stimulates her desire to change her life even more.