In Nordestina, a village in the middle of nowhere in Pernambuco, Antônio is the youngest son of his mother, who had uninterruptedly cried for five years. When he is a young man, he falls in love for Karina, a seventeen years old teenager that dreams to see the world and becomes an actress. Antônio promises Karina to bring the world to Nordestina, and once in Rio de Janeiro, he participates of a sensationalist television show and promises to travel to the fifty years ahead in the future or die for love with a deadly machine he had invented. Fifty years later, Antônio tries to fix what was wrong in his travel.