Mariana is a young woman from the interior of Minas Gerais who leaves for Rio de Janeiro in search of a man who seduced her and got her pregnant. But the rascal man gave her the false address, with only a photo as a reference. Staying at an uncle's house, she is faced with the difficulties of living in the big city, seeing that finding her husband in Rio is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Despite being promised to another man, a young orphaned woman falls in love with man working at the farm she lives in , and together they escape. According tradition in Northeast Brazil, her aunt goes after them, in order to kill them for revenge.
A group of migrants from the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil gets a truck "pau-de-arara" trying to move to São Paulo and have a better life. Along their travel, one of the women delivers a baby on the road. The driver, indeed, intends to carry them to the slave-work in the fields of a powerful "colonel", but the brave Ana faces the foreman of the farm and the driver, and the truck follows to the hired final destination.
