[2] Over a trio of summers, Madá, a housekeeper for a luxury summer villa in an exclusive coastal town in Brazil, relies on her resourcefulness and her eye for opportunity when her employers (Edgar, played by Otávio Müller and Marta, played by Gisele Fróes) are caught in major corruption scandals and leave the house empty and their employees stranded without pay.

In 2016, the troubles begin for the owners, and the authorities take away incriminating evidence and discover fraudulent accounts and transactions.

She forms a bond of kindness with Mr Lira, who is wheelchair bound and ashamed of the corruption his son has perpetrated.

Eventually, in the third summer shown in the movie, 2017, the owner is going to be placed under house arrest on the property but without his wife Marta, who has left him.

Variety magazine notes that "Casé looks the part of a workaday stand-in for millions of low-income Brazilians who toil away for scraps while the rich skirt the law to become richer", but they say the film is poorly paced, one sequence is confusingly portrayed, and they brand it an opportunity missed to explore the stark contrast between white collar crime and the survival of the poor.