Mateus, his wife Antônia, their three kids and his brother Pedro open a grocery/bar in Goiânia, Brazil, in 1959, called 'Armazém Brazil'. But in the opening party, the Police, headed by a violent inspector nicknamed 'Capitão', arrives to arrest, with extreme violence, an outlaw known as 'Flexa'. This violent scene scars the family permanently, and becomes the prelude to a tragedy.