A socially committed documentary about the land reforms in Brazil, which took place during the transition from dictatorship to democracy. In 1985, the government designed a plan with the intention to confiscate 43 million hectares of land from the large landowners, and to divide them among a million and a half landless farmer's families. This was not a serious sacrifice for the landowners, because the confiscated land was mostly not cultivated. And yet the reform failed, due to discord within the government and opposition from pressure groups. The farmers who had hoped for a small piece of land were the ones to foot the bill.