Ana, a young psychology student, is hired as a nanny for two children in Petrópolis, Brazil. Left alone with the children and the groundskeeper, she begins to receive threatening phone calls during the night, entering a spiral of panic with tragic consequences.
Movie director visits a set on a studio about to be closed. For his next film, he wants his faithful favorite actress, but she is now tempted by a profitable TV deal.
Widowed one year ago, Eleonora, a 33-year-old woman from Sao Paulo's upper bourgeoisie, lives alone, unsuited to her husband's absence, an intellectual frustrated and torn between the need for transcendence and a strong sexual compulsion. The life of the couple, although not happy, was intense. However, the presence of her a long-time friend Ana Maria, just arrived from Paris, a middle-class university student, is staying at his house. The two go to the site of Eleonora and she remembers her life with Marcelo and his death by drowning.
A small-town school teacher leads an apparently normal life, including a longtime boyfriend. But she secretly has several lesbian affairs until the women in her life start being brutally murdered.
Carlos, a married lawyer, gets involved with one of his clients. But the relationship turns into an obsession. The woman understands she'll never manage to separate Carlos from his wife, and decides to leave him, running away with another man.
