Pedro das Antas, son of deceased parents, and Liliane, daughter of Colonel Epaminondas Napoleão, are childhood friends. The young man, after spending ten years studying in Belo Horizonte, returns to his homeland and discovers that the colonel's lands had, in fact, been taken from his family. From then on, a dilemma is established: the boy needs to get back what is rightfully his, but, at the same time, he falls in love with the farmer's daughter.