Set in impoverished rural Brazil, this town is not the kind of place where a young girl can look to her grandfather for kindness and protection. Heitor has his grand daughter, the pubescent Auxilidora cleaning his house by day while at night he parades her naked behind the filling station where workers from the local sugar plantation pay to watch her as they masturbate. In a land where misogyny and violence towards women is the norm. she is lucky to be able to enjoy simple flirtations with the boy digging the cesspit beside Heitor’s house. But soon her beauty has caught the eye of violent thug Everado (played by City of God’s Matheus Nachtergaele)making her situation even more dangerous.