A little kid-ghost called Pluft lives with his ghost-mother and ghost-uncle, in a remote house in a desert island. He doesn't even believe people real exist. His world will be thrown upside down, when an evil pirate (Perna de Pau) disembark on the island, after kidnapping the little girl Maribel (daughter of a famous captain), in search of Captain's hidden treasure. Three friendly sailors will help to free the girl. Based on a very well known Brazilian children's play.
Marina, an upper-class girl, is dating a man in a bar located in a dangerous neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Zeca is a black man who is making a grafitti nearby. Three mysoginous and racist policemen go there to make what police is not supposed to do.