Plot Summary:Diamantina Mountains, Brazil, 1821. A slave trader, ANTONIO, returns to the decadent, but imposing farmhouse he inherited to discover his wife has died in child birth. Confined to this desolate property in the company of his demented mother-in-law and numerous slaves, he marries his dead wife's niece, BEATRIZ, a child of 12. A restless soul, he returns to his trading expeditions, and leaves his child wife behind. The loneliness of the big house in the rugged landscape mirrors that of its inhabitants. Each one has been displaced from his original home and forced into co-existence. The undercurrents of violence and prejudice, which still plague the Brazil of today, accelerate the inevitable tragedy which, in turn, heralds the tides of change.
1821年,巴西迪亚曼蒂纳山脉,奴隶贩子António回到又大又破的农庄。他的妻子死于难产,他和精神错乱的岳母与成群的黑奴被禁足于这荒无人烟的地方,他娶了死去妻子的12岁侄女Beatriz。不安分的António再次与商队一起远行,年幼的妻子Beatriz却不知如何与黑奴们相处……