Helena is a very beautiful 45-year-old woman who lives in the Leblon area, and works on her own as a beautician. Her best friend is Ivete, who is also a co-worker and confidant, who knows her classmate's most intimate secrets. Helena is the mother of two children, Fred and Camilla. Fred is an unemployed engineer whose wife is Clara, a woman from a wealthy family who married relatively young and has difficulty getting used to a more frugal lifestyle. Fred's younger sister Camilla studied literature in Oxford, United Kingdom. Following an accident, Helena falls in love with Edu, a young doctor who is the same age as her son. This love story attracts many criticisms from both sides about the age gap between them. Soon Edu will turn away from Helena when the young man falls in love with Camilla, Helena's own daughter, who she met during a tourist trip to Japan. But Camilla has a rare form of leukemia. Pregnant with Edu, she miscarried and seemed condemned to a slow death. To save her, you need a compatible donor, which is not the case for Fred, who is believed to be Camila's brother, but who is in fact her half brother. The latter can only be saved if Helena and Pedro have a child together again, which eventually happens, with the agreement of Miguel, Helena's new partner.