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In São Paulo, Lourenço is the owner of a shop that buys used objects. Little by little, he exchanges cold negotiating for pleasure in taking unfair advantage of customers who go to his shop when they are in financial difficulties. Lourenço sees the world as a place in which people, as well as used objects, are for sale - preferably, for a vile price. The diversity of people passing through his shop, makes him see them as components of a great human catalog. He classifies them according to a characteristic or to the object that is offered to them: "the bride", "the gramophone man", or "the addict". This process of "transforming into things" of the world will stop when Lourenço has to relate to people using a currency that is strange to him - namely, affection. He is symbolically disturbed, also, by a malodorous drain in the shop. Confronted with characters he imagined were under his control, Lourenço is obliged to reassess his vision of the world. The cast includes representatives of new talent in Brazilian cinema such as Sílvia Lourenço (Contra Todos, selection for the 28th Mostra), Alice Braga (Lower City, shown at the 29th Mostra and, also present at the 30th Mostra with Only God Knows), and Flávio Bauraqui (The 12 Labours, O Céu de Suely and Noel, all shown at the 30th Mostra). The soundtrack is by Apollo Nove, a musical producer much in demand with sounds from the sixties.