Namorado de Joana
Luísa is a romantic, dreamy and delicate young woman married to Jorge, an engineer, a man of good habits and good economic conditions. They didn't know each other well, but got married and Luísa was a good wife, "she was clean and happy as a bird". Everything get changed when she meets a childhood love, her cousin Basílio. What seemed to be a great adventure will became a nightmare and Luísa will discover the price of her infidelity.
Ronnie
Orfeu (Toni Garrido) é um popular compositor de uma escola de samba. Residente na favela, ele se apaixona perdidamente quando conhece Eurídice (Patrícia França), uma nova moradora do local. Mas entre eles existe ainda Lucinho (Murilo Benício), chefe do tráfico local, que irá modificar drasticamente a vida de ambos.