A bar serves as the setting for the story of Feliciano, an ordinary man from the northeast of Brazil, about 40 years old. Married to Laurinha, he works as a librarian, but dreams of seeing the only play he has ever written performed one day. At home, besides his wife, he shares the small apartment with his mother, a widow who only thinks about taking her husband's ashes to Jerusalem. While waiting for his death in the bar, Feliciano goes back over the main moments of his life. There, the past and the present blend together, and the scenes take place within the main scene. The film is an adaptation of the play of the same name by Moacyr Góes.