Documentary about João Pedro Teixeira, a peasant from Paraíba whose murder was ordered by local landowners, in 1962. The shooting was interrupted in 1964 due to the dictatorship, and taken up seventeen years later. The film tells the story of the Peasant Leagues of Galiléia and Sapé and the life of João Pedro from the words of his widow, Elizabeth Teixeira. She talks about her life during those 20 years, as well as about their children, far from her since 1964.