At the riverside of rio Tietê, in São Paulo, prostitutes, a pimp, a mentally disabled man, a handicap, people in the margin of the society live their ordinary hopeless lives without any expectation and waiting to die and join themselves in the boat of hell.

An anthology horror film, divided in three segments, directed by three of the most important Brazilian directors of the 20th century.

An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas.

As a child he was kidnapped by gypsies that raised him, without he ever knowing his parents. As a young man Tonho leaves the gypsies and go live by himself, meeting in his way a beautiful woman, who lost her brother, and a dangerous gang of violent criminals.

Man leaves the country and heads for the big city, where in middle of deprivation, he wins a lottery.