The Animal's Skin

The story of the first steps of a very young couple. Their love is great, as are the financial obstacles and an unexpected pregnancy.

A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins a group of poor beggars with the intention of finding a potential partner to marry in order to avoid her return to that place.

Bruno is a physician whose license had been revoked, due to some ethical problems in the past. He gathers some criminals to kidnap the children of two powerful bankers. While the police faces contradictory evidence and clues, Bruno starts killing the other criminals, to keep the ransom for himself.

Old couple are being evicted and turn to their five children for help. Since no one can accommodate the two of them, the children decide to separate the couple.

Anxious to please his boss, Roberto agrees to host the chief's lover in his own home, unaware of the problems this could cause among his family.

Luiza (Denise Bandeira), a quiet middle-class housewife, is married to Luís Antônio (Otávio Augusto), a lawyer for a construction firm. The couple has an eight-year-old daughter and is going through a relationship crisis. Weary of fighting, they decide to take a reconciliation trip, but Luiza chooses an alternative path.

A poor college student becomes a homosexual millionaire's lover in order to get ahead in life. The latter marries a woman for convenience, and the newlyweds end up sharing the young man.