Adrift and desperately needing money to pay for his ailing adoptive father's care, Ubaldo, a bank clerk who's unable to remember his childhood, receives an inheritance that will change his destiny for good. He goes to Cratará, in the heart of the northwest desert, where he'll become the leader of a pack of ruthless bandits, fulfilling the legacy of his biological father - a mythical cangaceiro.

Shelly, a young dancer, dream of becoming a singer of Brega - a romantic and sensually appealing musical scene in the brazilian's outskirts. inserted in a world where everything is ...