 Maria Auxiliadora is a 24 year-old woman very poor, that she lives Joana, her 7 year-old daughter close to. Needing go look for the result of Joana s exam in the hospital, Maria asks the priest of the local church that takes care of her to return. In spite of Joana s insistence to go with the mother Maria insists that she is with the priest, because she distrusts that her daughter suffers of a serious disease. To entertain the girl while it awaits the mother s return, the priest decides to tell her a mother s history that dedicated her life to the son: Mary, mother of Jesus Christ.