 A librarian s (Vilma Santos) husband (Cesar Montano) and mother-in-law turn out to be psychotically abusive. When the husband mistakenly thinks he has killed her, he dumps her in a river, where she is saved by a fisherman. Desperate for money and in need of help to take revenge on her husband, she hooks up with a bank robber (Ronnie Ricketts) whom she falls in love with. Together, they return to her husband s home and kill him.