After suffering the end of a love affair, G.H., a sculptor from Copacabana's artistic elite, decides to clean her apartment by herself, starting with the maid's room.

faces a huge cockroach that reveals her own horror of the world, a reflection of a society full of prejudice against beings it treats as subordinate.

This experience leads to the loss of her identity and makes her question all conventions that imprison females to this day.

is the second feature film by filmmaker Luiz Fernando Carvalho after the award-winning To the Left of the Father (Portuguese: Lavoura Arcaica) (2001), also a cinematographic version of a classic of Brazilian literature.

Throughout his career, Luiz Fernando Carvalho directed several TV productions based on literature, such as Os Maias, by Eça de Queiroz (2001); Capitu, by Machado de Assis (2005); A Pedra do Reino, by Ariano Suassuna (2007); Dois Irmãos, by Milton Hatoum (2017); and the mini-series Correio Feminino (2013), inspired by chronicles written by Clarice Lispector in the 1950s and 1960s.