Marcelo is an ex-convict seeking revenge (although who or why revenge is not explained). He teams up with his friend Luanda to outsmart two violent gangs of drug traffickers, who are about to negotiate a millionaire. When it's time for the exchange, Marcelo pockets the money, steals the swag, kills the delivery boy and starts a bloody war between gangs. But the siege is also closed against him and his two loved ones, Cris and Linda, a lover of the past that the anti-hero finds again.
A humble farmer aspiring for richness leaves his land to become a prospector. He finds a precious gem and hides it from his employer, for which he ends up beaten and tortured. After being released, he kills the perpetrators and flees to the big city. There he finds some criminals who will end up transforming him into the most powerful drug dealer and pimp of the underworld.
A woman catches her husband cheating on her so she drugs him, castrates him and then keeps him chained up in the basement where he's forced to watch her have sex with other men before she kills them.
Three criminals escape from prison and break in a seaside house to wait for the getaway boat. They subdue four aspirant actresses and three men and rape and torture them. One of the escapees is an idealistic political prisoner that falls in love with Letícia. When the violent Jorge kills a woman camped on the beach, the police investigate the area.
In the brothel of Jandira, there is a fight and the stranger Wilson is rescued by the local Marcos that brings him to his camp house. On the next morning, Marcos offers the job of lookout of his warehouse where he keeps a supply of fibers. Soon Wilson discovers that Marcos is a drug dealer that supplies São Paulo. When Marcos brings his sexy wife Silvia to the house, she seduced Wilson as part of a scheme to lure Wilson. Then Marcos pretend to find that Silvia is cheating him with Wilson and he shots Marcos with a weapon loaded with blankets as part of his frame-up.