Carlos is a young man from the São Paulo middle class who works for a big company during a time when foreign automobile industries were settling in Brazil. Shortly after, he accepts a job at a factory that makes automobile parts, where he becomes manager. To a certain extent, he is a family man who works hard, earns well and lives unsatisfied. Without any prospects in his life to change the condition he rejects, his last resort is escaping.
Alice's life changes when Laura, the daughter of her neighbor on the wall, knocks on her door to ask if she knows anything about her mother. No one has seen her for days, neither Alice nor Laura, nor the lonely residents of the building.
In this amusing story, Frederico Bruestlein, a trusted man of Prince François Ferdinand, owner of the Colony Dona Francisca, comes together with his troubled assistant Tonico to the city these days to write a report to Prince Ferdinand about how things are going here. In this astral journey, Bruestlein receives a shock of modernity, goes through unusual situations and revisits events, works and projects in which he worked in the past.
