1945年,Clotilde住在里约格朗德保守的农村,那时年少的Clotilde充满了叛逆。两三年后,她为拯救破产的父亲嫁给了粗暴的农民 Pedro Roldão,生了一个女儿。但是受到了Pedro Roldão的屈辱和虐待,他要求Clotilde给自己生一个儿子。如愿得子后,Clotilde又遭到了丈夫的背弃,于是她决定离开......同时她也失去了儿女的监护权。In 1945, the teenager Clotilde is a rebel in the conservative countryside of Rio Grande do Sul. A couple of years later, she marries the rude and abusive farmer Pedro Roldão to save her father from bankruptcy. When she has a daughter, Pedro submits Clotilde to all sort of humiliations and abuses expecting to have a son. After delivering a son, she witness Pedro leaving the house of his mistress and she decides to leave him. Further, she loses the custody of her daughter and her son in the manliest society. Clotilde sues Pedro in the slow justice system, and along the years, she has an affair with the lawyer Motta; the playboy Felipe; and the businessman Aires de Lucena that gives her economical independence. When her daughter Joana is murdered by her husband, Clotilde decides to fight against Pedro for the guard of her granddaughter.