"O Santo e a Porca" brings Marco Nanini, Nicete Bruno, Leandra Leal and Denise Fraga in a very current version of the comedy by Ariano Suassuna, set in the backlands of the 1920s. "Meia Encarnada Dura de Sangue" features the participation of Francisco Cuoco , Suzana Vieira, Othon Bastos, Camila Pitanga and Sergio Menezes, all grappling with the dilemma of a player on a team made up of poor blacks from a small town in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, invited to switch to the rival team, made up of white and rich. And "While Night Doesn't Enough" takes place in an abandoned town, where the gravedigger awaits the death of its last two inhabitants, the elderly couple played by Mario Lago and Eloísa Mafalda. The ability to face death in a beautiful and poetic way is the central point of this story, which features actor Caio Junqueira.
A Building Called 200 shows Luiz Fernando Guimarães, a sports lottery fanatic, who, upon receiving a tip, asks his wife and ex-lover to place the bet.
The episode tells the bravery of fisherman Chico Norato, who manages to tame the boiúna (a gigantic serpent that devours people, especially fishermen) and even save his small riverside town, Vila Sapucaia, from the magic of the Boto. Both characters, the boiuna and the boto, are legends that inhabit the Amazon River. The legend of the pink river dolphin says that it transforms into a man and impregnates the women of the villages located on the banks of the river.
Marina (Adriana Esteves) is the spoiled daughter of a wealthy landowner (Oswaldo Loureiro) from the Northeast. Tired of the Homeric fights and arguments she has with her husband Cássio (Marcelo Novaes), a typical city boy, she decides to ask her father to hire a gunman to eliminate her husband. The patriarch, who is no longer in love with his son-in-law, soon hires a jagunço (Ernani Moraes) to do the job.
Written by Alvaro Ramos, the episode shows the life of a couple who live in Copacabana, Peixoto (Paulo Gorgulho) and Alicinha (Claudia Lira). Peixoto receives an anonymous letter insinuating that his wife is cheating on him. He then begins to distrust Leleco (Paulo Betti), one of his best friends... To Peixoto's surprise, Leleco announces his marriage to Laís (Claudia Lira), a São Paulo woman who looks very similar to Peixoto's, but with the opposite temperament to Peixoto's. Alicia. From then on, everyone's curiosity increases to know who Laís is...
Written by Elizabeth Jhin, the episode will unravel the mysteries of an 18-year-old girl. A student at a school run by nuns, Euphemia (Caio Blat) has always been a sweet girl. Suddenly, her behavior begins to change and her tastes become more and more similar to those of boys... Custódia (Aracy Balabanian), Euphemia's mother wants her daughter to marry young Bibi (André Gonçalves). But the groom is worried about Eufemia's strange behavior, who starts to smoke, play football and dreams of going to war... What makes a girl, who was an angel, change so suddenly?
Lulu Bergantim (Tom Cavalcanti) is the newest citizen of Curralzinho Novo. In just six months in the peaceful city, the pharmacist has already performed several miraculous cures and is adored by the people. The mayor of the place, Cajuca Viana (Othon Bastos), is a thief and is running for a second term. Encouraged by Adrenalina Tupinambá (Débora Duarte), the teacher at the only school in the area, and by Epaminondas (Claudio Correa e Castro), the only judge, Lulu Bergantim decides to run for election with Cajuca. The pharmacist wins and, in an unusual and amusing way, starts to tidy up the city. The climate of harmony ends when the new mayor, Lulu Bergantim, discovers that he is being betrayed.
Written by Carlos Alberto Ratton, the episode tells the story of Madalena (Ana Paula Arósio), a beautiful young woman aged just 20 who lives in a country town and, as a child, saw her father killed by a policeman. In order to support her sick mother (Ana Rosa), she goes to work as a prostitute in Curral das Quengas, but her dream has always been to get married and have many children. The climate of harmony in the city is broken when the new delegate Militão (Ernani Moraes), a brute, takes over the local police station. He falls in love with Madalena, who doesn't even want to think about receiving him in her rooms, arousing the fury of the chief, who slaps her hard. Recovered, Madalena will use all her power of seduction to end once and for all with the race of the troublemaker delegate.
Written by João Emanuel Carneiro, the episode tells the story of Patsy (Malu Mader), a beautiful and attractive woman, married to Carneiro (Marco Ricca), a peaceful and wealthy man in his forties. Carneiro finds out that his wife is having an affair with Sérgio (Marcello Antony), a handsome guy who is in love and crazy for her to leave her husband to live with him. Wanting to win his wife back, Carneiro will ask for help from a couple of friends, Nogueirinha (João Camargo) and Lili (Mariana Hein). Together they will come up with a very crazy and fun plan to try to separate the lovers and make Patsy fall in love with her husband again.
With the screenplay by Tonio Carvalho and Fernando Rebello, the episode shows the story of the birth of the Baby Jesus in a picturesque way, approaching the subject with the allegorical touch of northeastern folklore. Boi Surubim (Eduardo Moscovis) gathers the residents to tell that the Baby Jesus had fled from heaven to earth, and that he is somewhere nearby. The people struggle, but they believe, and they all go looking for the Child. Representatives of heaven and hell come to join the search, the Archangel Gabriel (Zezé Polessa) and Beelzebub (Vera Holtz) want to take him with them anyway. Poor Ox who will have to do his best to keep the secret. Meanwhile, Maria (Camila Pitanga) is about to give birth and the Ox advises José (Leonardo Brício) to take her to have her son away in the mountains. On the way, a blind man (Chico Anysio) appears to ask for help. Man is God in disguise, who came to earth to ensure that no harm comes to pass and that balance is restored.
The episode begins at a bus stop, when Mário (Pedro Cardoso) is approached by Irene (Fernanda Torres), a very interesting woman who asks for information about a particular bus line. Realizing the "excuse", he continues the conversation and ends up proposing a new meeting. They start to meet and Mário ends up discovering that she is married, which makes him insecure. Instigated, however, by Jordão (Tonico Pereira), he decides to continue the attacks and ends up using his friend's apartment for meetings with Irene. All goes well, until an unexpected revelation is made.
The episode begins when Geraldo announces his marriage to Dagmar, the daughter of a colonel. During the engagement party, Dagmar draws Geraldo's attention to her sister Alice. Geraldo starts paying attention to his future sister-in-law, who is becoming a woman. Alice begins to seduce Geraldo and the couple starts having shady meetings. In one of these encounters, Geraldo takes an extreme attitude and Dagmar has a surprising reaction, followed by an unexpected revelation from her mother.
The episode opens with a husband, furious and armed, surprising his wife and her lover, who happens to be his best friend, in a hotel room. The three are involved in violent dialogues, fights, revelations and shots, until they are surprised by the presence of the waiter, who knocks on the bedroom door, bringing champagne. The ending is unexpected. Revenge can be even crueler than death.
Massu (Lázaro Ramos) receives from the hands of an unknown woman, Maria (Dirce Migliaccio), a blond baby, with lank hair and blue eyes, who claims to be her son, the result of one of her romantic relationships. He decides to baptize the boy so he doesn't become a pagan and invites Tibéria (Fernanda Montenegro) to be the child's godmother. There's only one problem: which of the "shepherd" friends will he choose as his godfather? The dispute of each of the friends to be chosen generates several funny situations until, in consultation with the father of saint Jaiminho (Cobrinha), Massu wins as a godfather none other than the deity Ogum (Christovam Neto). When the day of the christening arrives, the guests watch, gaping, as Ogun (Zebrinha) and Exú (Negrizú) fight to be the child's godfather.
The trickster Madame Beatriz (Danielle Winits) and her partner, Dudu (Chico Diaz), articulate a plan to deceive Bullfinch (Matheus Nachtergaele). She claims to be a psychic and pretends to be in love just to take the little money from Bullfinch, who she thinks is a wealthy man. After losing his job at the store owned by Arab Chalub (Stenio Garcia), Curió meets Madame Beatriz and is so fascinated that he becomes a partner in the woman's project, a show in which she enters a coffin willing to stay 30 days without eating or drinking.
Otália (Leandra Leal) arrives in the city to work at Tibéria's Castle (Fernanda Montenegro). She carries a few belongings in her luggage, among which a doll stands out, a symbol of her purity. Meanwhile, at the brothel, Cabo Martim (Du Moscovis) has an argument with Chico Pinóia (João Miguel) who, in spite of himself, calls the delegate, his brother, to close the Castle. As the story unfolds, the Cape falls in love with Otália and she dreams of marrying him, complete with a wedding dress and everything. But, provoked by Chico Pinóia, Cabo Martim ends up in prison. And, to free him from prison and reopen the brothel, Otália gives herself to Chico, which leaves Martim deeply hurt.