In the late 1950s, two brothers separated in childhood meet again as rivals when deciding the fate of a city and competing for the love of the same woman. Pedro and Diogo, sons of farmers from Mato Grosso, were separated at the age of three after losing their parents in a plane crash. Pedro was raised by his aunt Nara in the fictional Divinéia, in the hinterland of Mato Grosso, while Diogo was taken to Rio de Janeiro and raised by engineer Heitor Gonzaga, who had an affair with Nara when she was still a teenager.