In the middle of the 2008 global financial crisis, Vanda finds herself alone and broke, with two children to raise. She embarks on a string of bank heists using a blonde wig and a toy gun and, in the process, becomes a folk hero.
The plot addresses Maria Luísa's struggle for freedom, the struggle for rights and privileges that, at the time, were reserved almost exclusively to men. Maria Luísa decides to assume a false identity - that of a man.
A year has passed since the last sighting of a whale on the entire planet.
Olivia, a determined 18-year-old girl with trisomy 21, daughter of a famous biologist, joins a group of environmental activists in Azores and embarks on a mission to bring the whales back.