The filme relates how a victory - winning a scholarship to an elite private school - may become an obstacle race for an impoverished young person.

On January 1, 2003, in the south of Brazil, Laura, matriarch of a family of the upper middle class, found his family in their country house, for a Sunday meal. But on this day of President Lula's inauguration, nothing is going according to plan. As an echo to this political earthquake, everything seems to be deregulated in the property: the domestic revolt, the house is visibly decayed, and the neuroses and secrets of three generations threaten to take everything away.