Driven by poverty Flavias parents left home to work abroad so she has been living alone since she was 14. This made her tough and sarcastic. But now her parents are also getting a divorce and she loses her coolness. In an emotional crises she decides to take care of two runaways - Dudu (9) and Lia (12). She tries to build a surrogate family but her impulse is too misguided and the 2 kids finally run away from her too.