It tells the story of two families that are mortal enemies in the fictitious city of Santa Fe, at the end of the 20th century. Its characters who reek of soil, blood, and hard liquor get involved in various events in the small town, where their passions, desires, idealism and envy become intertwined and collide in a poetic and unexpected way.
The legend of Caramuru, a Portuguese man that finds a paradise in Brazil, after stranded by a shipwreck, but has his heart tested when the chance to return to his country comes.
Jornal Hoje is a news program aired by the Brazilian television broadcaster Rede Globo; the program is broadcast in the early afternoon each day from Monday to Saturday and following Globo Esporte and before Vídeo Show. It is presented jointly by Sandra Annenberg and Evaristo Costa.