The film brings Clarice Lispectorâs novel Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres to the current days. In the plot, LĂłri is a lonely and melancholic woman. She divides her time between her duties as a school teacher and her relationships, which are always fast and shallow. By chance, she meets Ulisses, an acknowledged Philosophy professor, who is self centered and provocative. Although he knows nothing about women, LĂłri learns with him how to love and to face her own loneliness.