[1][2][3] In August of the same year, the movie was among the 22 candidates to represent Brazil at the competition for the 2019 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film,[4] but the Special Commission of Selection (consisting of Bárbara Paz, Lucy Barreto, Jorge Peregrino, Flávio Ramos Tambellini, Jeferson De, João Jardim and Hsu Chien) ended up electing The Great Mystical Circus.

[5] Batista (Marco Ricca) is a valet at the parking lot of a rich hotel who suffers from alcoholism and lives in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro with his wife, housewife (Adriana Esteves); and his three children: the oldest one Pedro (Pedro Nercessian), for whom he arranges a job at the hotel's parking garage; Emília (Bianca Bin), a receptionist and secretary for a rich, young doctor; and Rita (Cacá Ottoni), an autistic teenage girl.

The father arranges him a job at the parking lot where he words, but one day, one client notices his cellphone is missing and soon the valet team (consisting of Batista, Pedro and a third man) is accused of stealing it.

Tatu invites him to join a team of young males who are paid to practice active anal sex with rich men.

Pedro soon catches the attention of Donato (Remo Rocha), one of Celso's most regular clients, who invites him to Armação dos Búzios.

Maria finds the test among the thrash and pressures Emília to tell her whether the father is Tatu ou her boss, but she dodges her questions.