Plot

After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.

Film version of the hit play, the film follows the misadventures of Dona Herminia, a middle-aged, retired mother of three whose biggest concern are her kids. Well, used to be; now that they're practically grown up, they don't exactly need their mothers often overwhelming attention, which is the cause of much confusion.—Anonymous

In Niterói, middle-class homemaker Dona Hermínia lives with her teenage son Juliano, who is gay, and her teenage daughter Marcelina, who is obese. Her husband Carlos Alberto has left her to live with a younger woman, the bimbo Soraia. When Carlos Alberto and Soraia go to the club with Juliano and Marcelina in his sports car, Dona Hermínia overhears the "children" making fun of her and she decides to take a time-out in the home of her aunt Zélia to calm down. Along the days, Dona Hermínia misses Juliano and Marcelina and tells stories of her life to Zélia. Meanwhile, the siblings feel how much they need her at home.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil