The history of the Tablado Theater and its founder Maria Clara Machado, as told through fifty nine testimonies of former students of different generations, such as Marieta Severo, Malu Mader, Bárbara Heliodora, Ernesto Piccolo, Cláudia Abreu and many others, besides the teachers of the theater's course and friends that have accompanied the writer's work, as Gilberto Braga and Marcos Palmeira. The testimonies are enriched by extracts from actual theater plays interpreted or read by the interviewees, such as Pluft and O Cavalinho Azul.