Helen lives in a cortiço with her grandmother, Mrs. Graça, who supports the family with informal jobs, such as selling skewers. Still very naive, her biggest concern is buying her grandmother a birthday present: a makeup kit. The girl is going to bend over backwards to get the money and her search will reveal the daily life of those living in tenements, outlining a collective story from the network of relations that the girl establishes.

Helen

The film tells the story of two characters who apparently occupy opposite spaces and positions, but who touch each other through the bias of desire. Subjects who escape from a planned life, Felipe and Vivian go astray, set themselves adrift, and have their condition of victim made evident by a fatality.