Film based on eleven stories by the most renowned Brazilian chroniclers, interconnected by the constant presence of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The chronicles are the following: “Sunday Recipe”, “ Apparition”, “Carioca Adventure”, and “The Enigmatic Pigeon”, by Paulo Mendes Campos; “The Indian” and “Luzia”, by Carlos Drummond de Andrade; “A Poor Man Died”, by Paulo Rodrigues; “ The Man Who Escaped” and “The Dark-Haired Woman and the Blond Man”, by Dinah Silveira de Queiroz; “ The Battle Begins”, by Fernando Sabino; and “Misunderstanding”, by Orígenes Lessa.