Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.
Marcélia Cartaxo
José Dumont
Tamara Taxman
Fernanda Montenegro
Umberto Magnani
Denoy de Oliveira
Lizette Negreiros
Sônia Guedes
Carlos Cambraia
Cleide Queiroz
Ednaldo Freire
Elza Gonçalves
Magali Biff
Maria do Carmo Soares
Marli Bortoletto
Nilton Borges
Dirce Militello
Rubens Rollo
Roney Facchini
Walter Paulo Filho
Euricio Martins
Miro Martinez
Manoel Luiz Aranha