During a screening of Oedipus Rex in a run-down movie theater in downtown Rio, three peculiar characters—a frustrated projectionist, his intern, and a wandering poet—decide to interrupt the film to discuss the death of cinema. The audience revolts. So does the film.
Judas Silva, an unorthodox private detective specialized in "surrealist cases", finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy involving a promising bossanova artist, her missing music producer, a sadistic enemy and his masochistic followers.
