Starring Sérgio Guizé, Flávia Alessandra, Débora Nascimento, Bianca Bin, Eriberto Leão, Elizabeth Savalla, Dhu Moraes, Rosi Campos, Marco Nanini, Miguel Rômulo and Ary Fontoura.

examines the life of Candinho (Sérgio Guizé), a young man who was separated from his mother at birth and lives in abject poverty in the fictitious countryside of Piracema.

Candinho was separated from his mother immediately after birth and was raised by the couple Cunegundes and Quinzinho, owners of a farm in the interior of São Paulo in the 1920s.

Pancrácio, friend of the family and a mentor to Candinho, advises him to travel to the city in search for his biological mother, Anastáncia, that he had never met.

On Anastáncia's eyes, Sandra is an exemplary, cultured, sweet and generous but in reality, she is unscrupulous, greedy and selfish.

In addition to the incessant search of his mother, he is determined to fight for the love of Filomena that now lives in the city and is in relationship with the possessive, Ernesto.