Carla (Lúcia Moniz) is a 40 year old Portuguese girl. Single and ready to mingle, she studied modern literature, got a job at a book publisher - which lasted a short time - and ended up dedicating herself to translation. Lives in a small apartment - in Campo de Ourique, heritage of her grandmother - has two cats (Pablo and Mimi) and never got married. She has never been a lucky girl in love, nor even in the game. In fact, Carla has never been very lucky with anything in her life. Shy by nature, she rarely goes out, rarely has a dinner out, rarely travels and rarely believes that any miracle can happen to her life. Until her fortieth birthday when her mother (Helena Isabel), offers her a voucher to spend in a fortuneteller.