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Cecilia meets Tancredo in 1934 but after some months of torrid romance he disappears. She doesn't understands what happened and tries to live her life, but never forgets him.
Years later, Tancredo shows up again. He had been imprisoned for political reasons.
In flashbacks, the story of Cecilia is told. She is the great-granddaughter of the Viscount of Itaboray, a Portuguese nobleman who went to Brazil with Don Jo o VI, the King of Portugal, when the latter fled from Napoleon's invasion of Portugal and other European countries.
After his arrival in Brazil, the Viscount impregnated an enslaved Black woman, but took good care of his only son with her, giving him a good education and an inheritance.
Cecilia's mother, the Viscount's spoiled granddaughter, marries a Portuguese merchant in Brazil and moves with him to Portugal when he returns to his homeland in 1914. She experiences a lot of prejudice against her as a Black woman and returns to Brazil leaving her four daughters behind in Portugal.
The story of Tancredo is also told. He is the scion of a traditional family of Brazilian coffee barons who becomes a communist leader and is later persecuted by President Get lio Vargas during his dictatorship in the 1930's and 40's.
The story is set in the events of history, during the times when the characters lived and in which, in one way or another, they took part or were witnesses. These events include the construction of the Madeira-Mamor railway through the Amazon Rainforest to Bol via at the beginning of the 1900's; the First World War and the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic, when it is believed 50 million people died; the Civil War in Spain and the Brazilian dictatorships in the 1940's, 60's, and 70's.
