Brasil República, 1918. Luís Jerônimo is a rich young man. Womanizer, spends all night on the street drinking and having fun with prostitutes, the boy finds out that he has an injury to his right lung. Advised by Edmundo Esteves, his doctor, he decides to spend a season at a cousin's farm in the small town of Vila da Mata in Espírito Santo, in search of fresh air, to prevent the disease from developing into tuberculosis.
Vanessa Giácomo
as Zulmira de Oliveira (Zuca)
Daniel de Oliveira
as Luís Jerônimo Vieira Pires
Regiane Alves
as Elizabeth Emerenciana Pereira (Belinha)
Danton Mello
as Manoel Junqueira Caldas (Neco)
Patricia Pillar
as Emerenciana Pereira
Tony Ramos
as Coronel Boanerges Pereira
Maria Flor
as Cristina de Oliveira Pinto (Tina)
Eriberto Leão
as Tomé
Carolina Kasting
as Mariquinha Caldas
Malvino Salvador
as Tobias de Oliveira Pinto
Mareliz Rodrigues
as Pequetita Novais
Reginaldo Faria
as Joaquim Vieira Pires