Spending summer vacation with her family in Buzios, Filipa, a fourteen-year old girl, experiences her rite of passage into adulthood while discovering love for the first time. A rite filled with anguish when she learns that her father, a famous author, is betraying her mother with a foreign woman who lives in the small seaside town.But, this secret is to be only the first in a series of others, both enchanting and painful, which she discovers about her family and herself as well.