Peter loves his wife dearly, and does everything to make her happy, so why would he invent a story that his work is taking him to Bangkok for a couple of weeks? His wife Juliana follows him to try and discover why! Bebito, a young boy from the interior of Bahia Brazil, becomes another Brazilian ''street child'. He makes friends with Marcopolo who teaches him how to survive on the streets of Salvador. But why must he go home to repay his former employer, the rich landowner Snr. Calvacanti? The situations they encounter are humorous, but typical. This collection of short stories are a fusion of fact with fiction, leaving the reader to guess which situations and characters are real, and which are not?