 Pedro and Rui kiss after a first-anniversary dinner; Pedro drives home, dying en route in a crash. Another pair of lovers, Odete and Alberto, split over her desire to have a child. Pedro lived in Odete s building. She attends the wake, stealing a ring, a last gift from Rui, from Pedro s finger. She behaves hysterically at the graveside, and later, wearing Pedro s ring, she insists she s carrying Pedro s child. Rui grieves as well, drinking too much and seeing Pedro s apparition. Odete s obsession intrudes on Rui, whose grief makes him vulnerable to her hysteria. Can this end well?