Randy is a young girl with tomboyish looks who lives with other lesbians, including her aunt. Evie is a wealthy, popular girl with a boyfriend. When Evie befriends Randy, she finds herself confronted with a passion she has never felt before and the two young girls face the challenges of a new romance.
After reluctantly walking away from his beloved restaurant “Le Coyote”, Camilo, a Mexican-born cook in his fifties who has become a maintenance worker, finds a job opportunity in the region. His plans for the future are challenged, however, when his estranged daughter reappears in his life with her little boy.
Sisters Chitarra and Léa are leaders of an all-female gang that refines oil drawn from an underground pipeline in their makeshift facility. They sell the gasoline they make to working-class motoqueiros, motorcycle-delivery riders who depend on it to survive in their Sol Nascente favela.
A young novelist, Rama, must confront buried traumas as she attends the trial of a woman accused of infanticide. Pregnant herself and increasingly uncomfortable, Rama’s doubts and fears about motherhood are revealed as the story of the alleged murderer unfolds.
