Anna appears and embraces her son, commenting on how much more like a man he now is than he was the last time she saw him a year ago. The manager seems shocked by the idea of the boy staying with his mother, but it isn't immediately clear why. The grandmother is on her way back to Santa Catarina, Brazil. She questions the boy who says that his grandmother left him there to stay with his mother. The boy is escorted off to a side room by the manager.
Meanwhile, many women in the house are hard at work preparing for what appears to be an important upcoming event, cleaning and arranging flowers. After being told about the letter for Anna, the boy's mother, the manager dispatches the first woman to find Anna. The older man, who appears to have traveled back in time to observe, watches them although they apparently can't see him.Īfter they enter the house, another woman who appears to be serving as a business manager greets them. The younger woman escorts the boy into the house. His grandmother, who has continued to watch discreetly from a distance, leaves the area once she knows he has been admitted. He gives her the letter, saying it is for his mother, and she lets him in. The gate is locked but a woman greets the boy. They came near the gate of the same mansion the older man visited 45 years later, and the grandmother leaves the boy there. The older woman produces a letter and asks the boy to give it to his mother. The scene shifts to some 45 years earlier where a twelve year old boy is being escorted on foot from a train station by his grandmother. It is apparently abandoned with empty rooms but has an aura of past opulence. He is alone as he starts wandering through the rooms of the mansion. In the morning comes the news that dictatorial measures were taken by the government, changing the political situation.An older man wearing a business suit is dropped off at a mansion by his driver. Newly arrived at the house and coming from Santa Catarina, it is a "virgin" genre and it is especially there to be given to Benicio, who never "jumped the fence".
Tamara is the young woman who is most interested in Hugo. Laura gets nervous, not wanting things to get out of hand, so she puts Hugo in a room in the attic, but he is disturbed in a house where circumstances always surround him with young women, some of whom provoke, tease, or attract him. The boy's arrival coincides with the day of a great farewell party for Benício, the most influential and powerful politician from another state. She lives in a luxurious mansion with several other young ladies, all led by Laura and serving the political maneuvering of Osmar, who uses the house for parties and orgies in order to impress and please possible political allies.
In 1937 São Paulo, 12-year-old Hugo comes from Santa Catarina, his grandmother returning him to his mother Anna, who is now with Osmar, the state's most influential politician.
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