Living alone and having only two elderly women for company, the girl creates a world of fantasies, in which the main character is her doll Emília, made by Tia Anastácia with scraps of cloth.

One day Narizinho meets Príncipe Escamado, sovereign of the Kingdom of Águas Claras, which, by coincidence, is located on the riverside of the ranch.

There, she is introduced to the most prominent subjects, such as the sour Carochinha, responsible for administering the fairy tales, and determined to keep Little Thumb trapped in her books.

The scripts were written by important names in Brazilian television drama, such as Benedito Ruy Barbosa, Marcos Rey, Silvan Paezzo and Wilson Rocha.

There, the external scenes were recorded on the porch, on the patio and in the gardens, as well as some internal ones, carried out in the living room, kitchen and barn environments.

The other interior scenes – the library, the laboratory of the Visconde de Sabugosa, the bedrooms, the Cuca cave, the Reino das Águas Claras, among other environments – were recorded in the Cinédia studios.

In 1996, Rede Globo, reprised the episodes "As Caçadas de Pedrinho" and "A Chave do Tamanho", referring to the 1981 season, within TV Colosso.

With the end of the original exhibition by Globo in 1986, TVE Brasil reprised the program from 1986 to 1988, with some episodes from 1979 to 1984, among them: O Curupira, Quem Quiser Que Conte Outra, Olhos de Retros, O Gênio da Lâmpada, Emília, Romeo and Juliet, A Santa do Pau Oco, Não Era Uma Vez, The Hen that lays the Golden Eggs, The Mask of the Future, Rapunzel, Cuca's Great Revenge, Journey to Heaven, Robson Crusoe, The Talking Donkey and The Emilia's Ark.

Between October 1994 and May 1998, TVE reruns Sítio, together with TV Cultura, this time showing episodes from 1977 and 1978, among them: A Cuca Vai Pegar, O Minotauro, Memórias da Emília, Os Piratas do Captain Hook, Who Has Mouth Goes to Rome, João Pretend, The Little Angel with the Broken Wing, Peninha - The Invisible Boy, The Terrible Roca Bird, Crazy Cupid, The Other Side of the Moon, The Miraculous Root, Atomic Reign and The Death of the Viscount.

From 2008 to 2010, Globo Marcas released 1 episode of Sítio per year, among them: Memórias da Emília, O Minotauro and Reinações de Narizinho.