在这部置之死地剧情片中,Miro (Fúlvio Stefanini) e Abílio (Otávio Muller) são irmãos e prósperos pecuaristas do centro-oeste brasileiro. Simultaneamente, controlam uma pequena rede de negócios ilícitos. Miro possui forte ligação afetiva com sua família, em especial a esposa Jussara (Ana Braga) e a filha Elaine (Alice Braga). Abílio discorda do modo como o irmão conduz seus negócios e acompanha, de longe, o envolvimento da sobrinha com o piloto Dênis (Daniel Hendler). A revelação deste romance e as investidas de Abílio contra Dênis mudam completamente o panorama familiar.
The Menezes, a powerful family of animal breeders from the Mid-West, have always been at the helm of all illegal dealings in the region. In recent times, they've watched as the system that protected them for so many years slowly disintegrates. Mirão Menezes lives at the mercy of the drug-trafficking industry, the ever-encroaching authorities, and the constant and violent power struggle with his brother Abílio. Mirão's daughter Elaine becomes involved with her father's pilot, finds herself pregnant and decides to flee with him after her Uncle Abílio bribes them. Brito, the hitman sent to find the couple and finish them off, is ironically also victim of a love story.
