Kbeto (Eriberto Leão), a writer in his fifties who has been suffering from a creative block for 20 years, is in search of inspiration to write his second novel and put an end to his reputation as a single-success author. He seeks inspiration in the bohemian life in the lower Augusta district of São Paulo, until one night he finds a diary in a dumpster. He transcribes and publishes the diary, but the author of the story shows up with a criminal rage.