Rique wants to be an actor. Adamastor has just received a large inheritance. Together they come up with a grandiose plan to build a theme park recreating paradise along the coast of Santa Catarina. Moacyr Scliar spins an adventure about ecology, art, and destiny, set against the backdrop of Brazil’s natural landscape.
Rique is a talented boy who dreams of becoming a stage actor, but his career has not yet taken off. He plays the lead in a play that flops. Adamastor is also going through a difficult time in his career, but news takes him by surprise: a millionaire uncle has died and left him his entire fortune. Adamastor quits his bureaucratic job and tries to escape the persecution of his ex-wife Elisa, with whom he shares a son, the spoiled Herodotus.
Rique and Adamastor meet by chance and their dreams converge. They embark on an adventure to build paradise on earth, right on the Brazilian coast: a theme park on a beach in Santa Catarina.
They don’t want to turn that paradise beach into a Disney attraction, but to highlight the best that Brazil has to offer, which is nature. Adamastor expands his team by hiring the Argentinean Gutie rrez, his “niece” Isabel, and even a mechanical snake with a sensual voice.
When Adamastor’s dream finally seems to be coming true, he realizes that he’s going to have to convince a lot of people of the theme park’s viability with Indigenous peoples and native animals, and without advertising and high-tech gimmicks.
