Aline and Diogo are living a troubled marriage ending. He is a doctor on call and won’t accept the separation. She is an oncologist and struggles, secretly, to accept a miscarriage. She knows that Diogo's brother was murdered because of an old family bad blood on the countryside. It is her responsibility to tell him this news. This leads them on a trip to Diogo's hometown, a place in his past he denied for years. At the funeral, Terezinha, Diogo’s mother and family’s matriarch, places on him the duty of revenge, a demand to return to his origins. From there, we see the power struggle between Aline and Terezinha for Diogo’s destiny. On one hand, a mother wants her estranged child to take his rightful place. On the other, a woman tries to avoid her ex-partner from committing an act that is against his nature. The two women want revenge from nature.