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Tião, a Young worker, dates Maria, his colleague at the factory. When he finds out she is pregnant, he decides to set a date for their marriage. But a strike breaks out and Otávio, Tião’s father, a veteran union leader, joins the movement, displeased. He takes part on the demonstrations in front of the factory and clashes with the police, is beaten and arrested. His son, indifferent to his father’s and friends’ dramas, breaks the strike and blames Otávios’s activism for their poverty, creating a conflict in the family’s heart.

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1981 Venice Film Festival.