年近花甲的罗斯是个俱乐部的老板，与儿子保罗的关系非常恶劣，他唯一的愿望就是存够钱，带着年轻的妻子安吉和五岁的儿子搬到美丽的海边城市去。而保罗的愿望就是还清身上的债务，早日离开哪个从来正眼看过自己的父亲。一天晚上，一个神秘客人留下了一个装满可卡因的箱子，这无疑成了他们快速实现梦想的良机。两人在不知情下，开始了一场争夺梦想，逃离现实的暗夜旅程。In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Sinatra and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in cocaine and his father is married with the former prostitute Angie, and they have a little son. When a client is killed by his wife in their establishment, they find a suitcase with drugs. In the night that they have scheduled a negotiation with African buyers, their African liaison dies while having sex with the travesty Nazda. Sinatra proposes to the Nigerian dishwasher of the brothel, Wemba, to travel to the harbor of Santos, close the business with the drug dealers and in return he would receive a large amount. Wemba accepts but while returning to his car in the harbor, he is attacked by two smalltime thieves and passes out. His lack of contact with Sinatra and Paul leads to a sequence of misunderstandings with a tragic end.