About the years of repression in Brazil, when there was a brutal dictatorship and who dared to go against it was immediately among the expelled from the country. The central events unfold in São Paulo in 1964. The main characters are Jose and Maria. There is no love between them for the simple reason that Maria is the leader of the student movement against the dictatorship, and Jose works in intelligence and looks for people like Maria. He is true to his ideals and cannot give them up for the sake of his feelings.