Top bicheiros, like Miro Garcia and Capitão Guimarães, make an agreement to divide territories and dominate the Rio de Janeiro carnival parade. But the rise of Miro's son threatens the peace in the system.

Miro's son Maninho becomes Rio's richest and most violent petty criminal. But when he threatens to enter an area owned by Rogério Andrade, he pays the price of his bet.

Maninho's daughters Shanna and Tamara clash over their father's crime inheritance. But with the arrival of their husbands on the scene, the fight between the twins turns into a bloody war.