 In Bahia, a woman spurns a suitor she d rejected thirty years before. In response, he and his sons sadistically kill her husband and sons. She gathers her three daughters and swears revenge, sending each to hire a killer who s to bring her the head of his victim. Maria Francisca is to hire Zé das Cobras, who eats snakes for courage and won t talk directly to women. Maria Rosa is to hire Chief Tenório, a righteous policeman currently on the hunt for a mad dog. Maria Pia is to hire Jesuíno Cruz, whom she must first spring from prison, and who cuts his victim s in half so that God and Satan get their share. Will the daughters succeed? Will justice be done?