Jack Noah, un petit acteur, travaille sur un tournage dans le pays latino-américain de Parador au moment où le pays est secoué par la mort de son dictateur d'une crise cardiaque. Le bras droit du défunt fait une offre que Jack ne peut refuser, en lui demandant de prendre la place du terrible dictateur.
In Nilópolis, Eliane, a 15-year-old girl, who is the daughter of a lower-middle-class couple, falls in love with Otávio, a 33-year-old divorcee. Upon learning of the relationship, Eliane's parents forbid her to meet her lover.
Two students make a date in a secluded cave behind their school, where they could be undisturbed. But on arrival they see a corpse. They run to inform the authorities, but when they arrive the corpse has mysteriously disappeared.
A film that records the rehearsals of a Brazilian theatre troupe directed by Victor Garcia, and then the conflicts that break out as they tour Iran and France with a performance of Calderon's autos sacramentales. A problem with a scenery prop sparks a crisis in the group and the film chronicles this disaster.