Enrico Paschoal Nicaretta

The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is headed by a matriarch anxiously waiting for the night to hear Carlos Lacerda. The intense emotional plot highlights the absurdity of the characters' behavior.

A normal day in the lives of a family, while a film by Domingos de Oliveira is watched on TV.