Eloá is an intelligent and ambitious woman, in search of social and professional projection. To this end, she strives to stand out in the engineering company where she works with her husband Osmar, Fraga Dantas S.A. Osmar is an accommodated individual, without great ambitions, who does not have the same prospects for advancement as a woman. During a party, Eloá, frustrated at not getting a promotion, meets the mysterious Raul. He assures her that he can make her grow in his work. Eloá begins to stand out professionally and her rise follows, in an inverse way, the downfall of Osmar, generating a crisis in her hitherto unshakable marriage.