At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the unoccupied house in order for the owners who are never there.
From the poverty of late 19th-century Italy to the fever-drenched nights of Rio de Janeiro, this is the story of Pasquale, Gaetano, and Alfonso Segreto-emigrants, petty criminals, kings of the Carioca night, and Brazil's first filmmakers.
