Set just before and during the Second World War in Brazil., and concerns the life and problems of young Doralina, her mother and a strange man called Laurindo, whom Doralina is persuaded by her mother, to marry.

An air mail pilot takes the Gloria, before the plane has been fully tested, to fly across the Atlantic with his mechanics in a tale based on the first transatlantic flight from East to West by the Junkers Bremen, in April 1928.