An orphan is sent to a reformatory where the inmates receive an extremely repressive education. While visiting the place, a teacher hears the orphan's indignant complaints about the mistreatment. Impressed, he adopts this 16-year-old girl, who at 24 graduated in Social Sciences. Now she has a name: Vitória dos Santos, and her concern is to help the girls who, like her, suffer in the city's asylums.

Passa-se em 1862, sobre um episódio da vida da Princesa Izabel, quando contava apenas 16 anos de idade e um ano menos a sua irmã, a Princesa Leopoldina. Nesta época já defendia os negros e pensava em abolir a Escravidão.

Rosália and Adriano, who fall in love at a masked ball in Rio de Janeiro, but their happiness is interrupted by a marriage agreement from Rosália's father to pay off debts.

Middle-aged married journalist goes to the beach resort of Búzios, in Brazil, to write a book. Gradually, he falls in love with his neighbor's daughter, a beautiful teenager much younger than he, ignoring the social implications.