When convict Maria do Socorro Nobre reads an article in Veja magazine about the Polish artist Franz Krajcberg, she decides to write him a letter. Socorro was condemned to almost twenty-one years in a women's prison in Salvador, Bahia, whereas Franz is a tortured artist who lost his family and spent his youth in a Polish ghetto but survived the Holocaust. Franz relocated to Brazil and reclaimed his life wish by living in close proximity to nature, inspiring Socorro to dream again about life.