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.

A man kills his wife on their wedding night, after discovering she had been unfaithful. After being acquitted, he moves to the country, where he becomes part of a love triangle.

A young man from Rio who, down on his luck in the capital, takes a job as manager of a sugar mill in the country, where he finds love with the mill owner’s daughter. The former manager, who had been demoted for incompetence, becomes jealous and tries to sabotage the mill.

1929 film by Humberto Mauro

Ox carts are still part of the landscapes of the Brazilian badlands, in a mixture of usefulness and poetry. Filmed in Volta Grande, in the Zona da Mata mesoregion of Minas Gerais, it was Mauro's only film in color and also his last.