Eduardo, a teacher who heads a theater group at his school, the Troupe dos Seis, made up of students Tecão, Paty, Bruno, Fabi, Zepa and Michele. The group will perform at their school's end-of-year party, but as there is no place available to rehearse, the teacher decides to conduct the rehearsals in the old mansion of Barão Alfredo, his grandfather. What he doesn't know is that the place has two unusual inhabitants: a couple of ghosts who can now go back to scaring and messing with people.

Telmo is a retired theater director that realizes he doesn't remember the time he spent kept in jail during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He decides to stage a play and, with threads of memory, he improvises the lines with his young cast. Telmo dives into his own history and ends up revealing for himself what, being so painful, he'd rather forget.