In the 80's, the teenage orphan and intern of an institution for protection of minors Vera Bauer becomes the protégé of her teacher Paulo that gets a job for her in a library. Bauer is a poetess and lives an inner conflict with her sexuality, feeling a man trapped in a female body. She falls in love with Clara, who works in the video department of the library and has a son, and they have a relationship. While she writes her biography, she recalls her life in the institution. However, she is not able to deal with her sexual crisis.
—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil