Alice lives in Palmas, Tocantins, where she works as a tour guide. She’s preparing to marry Henrique. After she received the unexpected news of the death of her father, she goes to Sao Paulo to attend her father’s funeral service. There she meets the second wife of her father and Regina Celia, Alice’s half sister. There is a traffic jam in the way to the airport and she abandons her original plan of returning home and decides to stay in Sao Paulo to resolve issues concerning the inheritance.