Through short and slightly absurd situations, we follow - like a patient being shown cards in a Rorschach test - the strange repetition of a motif never fully displayed, but always dealing with the feminine and the male responses to its mystery. All the nine stories take place in Rio de Janeiro, a city very much accustomed to being the scenery for the absurd and the strange to happen. Under its strong and unmerciful lights, men and women witness each other in situations that prompt themselves into pure anguish or uncontrollable laughter. The nine scenes are: Radio - three girls driving back from a failed Holiday trip; Crabs - a couple breaks up in a strange way while eating crabs by a strange swamp restaurant; Demon - a woman is thought to be diabolically possessed; Copacabana - two women meet in a crossroad in a busy Copacabana afternoon; Talk - three stage technicians discuss in a very explicit way what they would like to do to Mirra, an actress in the play being staged there; Ravishment - a man approaches a woman in the middle of a party and steals her from her boyfriend with a word; Mirror - while a girl is hiding in the man’s bathroom, a guy comes in and talks to the mirror; Sail - a man tells his girlfriend that she is pretty and we follow her subtle reaction to his words; Beach - seating in the sun, in a beach, a man watches a woman go into the sea…and swim away. The juxtaposition of the scenes - almost separated sketches - might, luckily, arouse in the viewer the sense that certain issues can only be tackled with this apparently random brushes.