Inspired by his own family history, Matthias Lehmann creates the season's masterpiece: a Brazilian saga spanning 60 years of intersecting destinies.

In the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, opulent patriarch Oswaldo Wallace rules over his mines with authority. His two sons, Severino and Ramires, are only a year apart in age but couldn't be more different: the first, a political leftist, becomes a journalist and then a writer, while the second supports the military exercising authoritarian power during the "Years of Lead" (anos de chumbo in Portuguese), from 1968-78.