At a fair in the Sertão of Bahia, Eleutério (Reginaldo Faria) considered buying a strange relic: a little devil stuck inside a bottle, which he kept hidden despite the protests - from the maids, the settlers and his wife Nena. When, however, his wife died after the couple's child was born, it was not long before the people blamed the little devil for the event. And, worse than that, attribute to him the paternity of the newborn. Time passed, the boy grew, and the story was perpetuated. The beautiful and restless Jose Eleutério (Eriberto Leão), known as Zeca, won and lived up to the fame he brought from the cradle. Wherever he came he was regarded as the "son of the devil." Courageous, created by these roads, Zeca was collecting stories along his walks, feeding the people's belief and making the devil's story a legend. With an adventurous spirit, as he followed his entourage along the roads, he defied death by mounting brave bulls, taming donkeys and bucks. Wherever she passed, she left her story and the hearts of the young girls sighing. Zeca went to Rio de Janeiro and stayed there for eight years studying. He returned to his father's farm, near the city of Paraíso, with a degree in Law and Agronomy. And it was codenamed "pawn dotô". Little interested in the titles, what he really wanted was to follow the roads mounted on his horse. With the diplomas hanging on the wall, he set out in a procession, not imagining the surprise that awaited him, snatching his heart forever. On the way home, Zeca and his friend Terêncio (Alexandre Nero) ran on their mounts along the dirt road that led to Eleutério's farm (Reginaldo Faria). In the opposite direction, the carré da santinha. And the meeting. The horse of the pedestrian doctor. The horse of the buggy too. The stares crossed. Yours, with the look of sweet Maria Rita. It was enough for a beautiful and troubled love story to be born. Unlike Zeca, created loose in the world, Maria Rita (Nathalia Dill) spent part of its