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A month after moving in together due to the quarantine, Gabi (Thati Lopes) and Lucas (Victor Lamoglia) are already in couples therapy online. The young couple was enthusiastic at first, but now the school teacher and the architect have succumbed to their individual differences. Facing Regina the therapist (Vilma Melo) on the computer screen, they discuss their relationship and detail how they got to the brink of separation. A series of flashbacks then recounts how quickly living together went from honeymoon status - pure love, companionship, TV and popcorn - to a rupture under the same roof. As much as they make schedules and plans, not every couple is capable of withstanding the "new abnormal". Gabi, more relaxed and confident, tries to introduce Lucas to the practice of yoga and even, who knows, live swinging with everyone wearing masks, of course. She has no intention of quitting "going out" to happy hours, dinners, parties and festivals, everything online and washed down with tequila and other booze. Otherwise, she'd feel smothered, as if she were living a coronavirus nightmare. Lucas, on the other hand, is more apprehensive and susceptible, especially after he starts absorbing the digital influence from pessimistic futurologist Jonas Cat

The only place with any social isolation in the slum is the bathroom. Robinson J

Times are tough for Claudia (Martha Nowill) and Chico (Luiz Braga). During the pandemic, she's pregnant and just got fired from her freelance job during a virtual meeting. Her husband, "Brazil's most unrenowned composer", is unable to make a living playing in bars and parties. Now everything must be meticulously organized in spreadsheets, including all the household chores. Rent, credit card, supermarket, baby clothes, the damn installemnts of that Carnival in Bariloche ... It's time to cut expenses, but which ones? There are plenty of crazy ideas to raise some money on the internet, but it's not as simple as successful Youtubers make it seem. That's when Claudia comes up with a bright idea that shocks her husband: she could become a webgirl and have virtual sex with clients on the computer. Against Chico's initial protests, she rants a brave feminist speech and turns the tables. She's guided by Grace Fonda (Paula Burlamaqui), an experienced professional in the business, and that's how the virtual porn star Holly Claude comes to life. Pregnancy fetishism in porn sites can ensure that the couple stays out of debt. Holly Claude's multiple clients and performances reveal various costumes, poses, dialogues and results. Sharing this unusual home office with her husband creates unexpected and hilarious situations. The problem then becomes how to reconcile so much action in front of the webcam with married life after a long "workday". Claudia and Chico are the living example of the saying "when poverty comes knocking at the door, love flies out the window". Jealousy, male chauvinism, pragmatism and mutual understanding are at stake in this episode. The quarantine only aggravates the situation that already existed in the old normal. Except that, in the current circumstances, Holly Claude can be the provider that neither Claudia nor Chico could be.

Not only the floors of the building stand between Edgar and Zezinho but also the interests linked to each social class. Confident that he's "healthy as a Viking", Edgar follows a perverse logic that the people must sacrifice themselves so that others (like him) can survive. He believes that reopening businesses and the resumption of economic activity is what matters most. Entertained by his graphics, gadgets and assorted beers, he appeals to the doorman's servile ways to go out and do his urgent shopping. Zezinho needs to circumvent Maria's virtual surveillance and his own fear to attend to Edgar, whom he admires with an opportunistic hint. For the couple, who doesn't have health insurance or a voucher for the pandemic, staying healthy is of utter importance. Maria stays home and since only one boss continues paying her daily wages, she sews protective face masks to sell and donate to the community. She can customize them if the customer wishes. The apparent friendship between doorman and resident will soon be tested. It's the final blow to this sardonic allegory about social inequalities that were highlighted by Covid-19 and that no mask is capable of covering up.

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