Biology professor Edu is an idealistic man who moves with his son Lipe to the charming, fictional town of Nova Aliança in Minas Gerais, seeking a better quality of life. Edu is engaged to Amelinha, the daughter of the wealthy and greedy rancher João Mourão. But this relationship becomes unstable when Edu falls for the dreamy lawyer Clara, daughter of Lígia and the seasoned lawyer Raul Gouveia. As a single father, Edu strives to be present in Lipe's life, trying to keep him away from his mother, Mariana, whose drug addiction prevented her from raising her son. Edu's future father-in-law, João Mourão, is the biggest businessman in Nova Aliança: he owns a farm, a dairy, a meatpacking plant, and a transportation company. João takes issue with Edu when he discovers that the young man is a staunch defender of nature and environmental protection laws, turning him into a rival in the battle for a stretch of untouched forest.
