[3] It stars Marcos Palmeira, Dira Paes, Jesuíta Barbosa, Irandhir Santos, and Alanis Guillen.

[4][5] The telenovela storyline addresses contemporary life at the world's largest tropical wetland area, the Pantanal, and the cattle-ranching activity in the region.

Filmed in location shortly after the worst forest fire in the Pantanal history,[6] the show also tackles the climate change and the fight against deforestation between locals and natives.

Five years later, on a trip to Rio de Janeiro, José Leôncio falls in love and marries Madeleine.

Twenty years later, Jove discovers that his father is alive and goes in search of him, in a reunion marked by a big party.

To complete the family turmoil, at one point, everyone is surprised by the arrival of a third son who vies for the love and admiration of this father: José Lucas de Nada.

The daughter of Maria Marruá and Gil, Juma does not open her guard to anyone and has learned from her mother to defend herself from the "animal men", the most dangerous species that can prowl the abandoned village where she lives.