Milita Meireles

A building in Lisbon where three families with very different social backgrounds live. An arrogant aristocratic family on the first floor, a modest bourgeois family on the ground floor, and a working-class family in the basement.

The confrontation of two different temperaments: Figueiredo, a hard-working shopkeeper; his brother-in-law, José, disorderly and wasteful, heir to a family with noble titles but poor. Figueiredo tries to rescue José from this path of perversion that had led him to invest in an attempted theft, followed by a frustrated murder and seduction ...