In 1889, a conflict arose between the decadent and ruined rural aristocracy following the liberation of slaves and a new class of wealthy individuals, comprised of entrepreneurs emerging from the republican industrial class, interested in free labor. In the city of Ouro Negro, in the interior of São Paulo state, the conservative, aristocratic, and monarchist Almeida Santos family, which traditionally dominated the region, began to lose ground to the Lobo Ferraz family, representing the nascent progressive and republican bourgeoisie.

Fúlvio Stefaninias Leonardo / Léo
Márcia Mariaas Veridiana / Diana
Rolando Boldrinas Barão Leôncio Almeida Santos / Armando
Sérgio Mambertias Padre Antenor
Nathália Timbergas Cândida
Paulo Goulartas Santiago
Mauro Mendonçaas Salvador
Carminha Brandãoas Mariana
Célia Helenaas Isaura
Lafayette Galvãoas Plínio Salinas
Lauro César Muniz