At the peak of her mid-life crisis, a full time mom will do whatever it takes to conquer the friendship and admiration of her teenage daughter, even facing her deepest fears by joining a beauty contest in a summer resort.

De Repente, Miss!

The arrival of the West Indian Companies to Natal in the XVII century is just the beginning of this violent story that pushes Bernarda and her family to run away from the city and from the invasion. In the Potengi Mill she meets the foreman's son Rafael and they immediately discover a passionate love. It will give them the force to try to survive during those violent years triggered by Jacob Rabbí, a German assigned by Prince John Maurice of Nassau to command the conquest.