Neves and his wife Celia are the owners and managers of the 'Little Star Pension', a familiar hotel that caters to bourgeois family and would-be actors, instead of the ill-reputed 'Good-Night Pension' (just across the narrow street), where ...
A trama passa-se na pensão Estrelinha em torno da morte de Neves, o dono odiado por todas as restantes personagens, cada uma com o seu motivo para o querer ver pelas costas.
De plot speelt zich af in het Estrelinha-pension rond de dood van Neves, de eigenaar die gehaat wordt door alle andere personages, elk met hun eigen reden.
