Asa Branca is getting a statue of Roque Santeiro seventeen years after the hero saved the city. Dona Mocinha complains that the statue doesn't resemble Roque, her ex-fiancé.

Gerson gets angry at Roque's widow's attitude and tries to file a complaint against her with the police. Mocinha tells Dona Pombinha that she will never marry and will die single.

Pombinha and Mocinha confront Matilde about the opening of the nightclub, but the dancers stand up to them. Sinhozinho Malta visits the widow Porcina, but she pretends to be ill.

The film crew meets Roque Santeiro's father and brother. The widow, Porcina, seeks out the film's director to discuss the script.

Porcina orders Gerson to remove Mocinha's scene from the script. Mocinha calls Roberto Mathias for a chat and discovers that he will be playing Roque Santeiro in the film.

Mocinha tries on her wedding dress. At the unveiling of the statue, Mocinha and Widow Porcina have a heated argument, each saying that the other should not be the one being honored.

Tânia tells Roberto that she is not attracted to him. A bomb explodes at the Sexus nightclub before its opening. Mocinha goes to Porcina's house for the statue's unveiling party.

Sinhozinho Malta tells Tânia that he feels lonely. Astromar says he's in love with Mocinha. Tânia asks the farmhands about the accident that killed her mother.

Tânia tells Porcina that she doesn't mind her marrying Sinhozinho Malta, and the two argue. Mocinha tells Zé das Medalhas that she has a relic from Roque Santeiro.

Roberto Mathias goes to visit Porcina and the two sleep together. Roberto oversleeps and doesn't show up for the recording. Pombinha sees the dancers from the Sexus nightclub at the church.

Sinhozinho Malta promises to reopen the Sexus nightclub. Roberto Mathias and Porcina go out together. Linda tries to talk to Lulu, Zé das Medalhas' wife, without success. Malta sleeps at the nightclub.

Mocinha runs to Roque's statue. Malta's mother-in-law appears and says she's going to live on the farm. Roberto Mathias goes to visit Porcina. Lulu leaves home and goes to Matilde's nightclub.

The nightclub is reopened. Tito is thinking about opening a candle factory in Asa Branca. Pombinha and Mocinha gather the women of Asa Branca to protest against the opening of Sexus.

Porcina meets Dona Marcelina, the mother of Sinhozinho Malta's ex-wife. Professor Astromar prepares to destroy Roque's statue when he is interrupted by a drunkard.

Lulu asks Zé to take her to the nightclub. Matilde receives a mysterious letter. Linda and Gerson go to Sexus. The women of the city gather at the nightclub's door with brooms in their hands.

The women prepare to storm the nightclub, but Matilde and the girls fight back. Linda Bastos is hit. Roberto prepares to flee Porcina's house when he sees Malta arriving.

Sinhozinho Malta goes to the inn where Roberto Mathias is staying. Porcina sends Mina to the inn with a note telling Roberto not to visit her.

Mina makes up an excuse for Sinhozinho Malta, and he tells Matilde that he will have to close the nightclub. The note from the widow Porcina reaches Roberto Mathias, but Matilde intercepts it.

Porcina calls Roberto Mathias. Roberto and Tânia almost kiss. Lulu meets Father Albano and confesses to him. Porcina goes to the inn to look for Roberto.

Gerson asks Roberto Mathias to get close to the widow Porcina to keep her away from the filming. One of Porcina's henchmen goes to fetch Roberto, but he says he can't go.

Malta threatens Roberto. Porcina returns alone from the farm and goes to watch a recording of Roberto when she is surprised by Malta. Roberto is kidnapped by Porcina's henchmen.

Everyone is searching for Roberto, who is taken by the henchmen to Porcina's farm. Tânia goes to find Malta and accuses him of kidnapping Roberto because she suspects they are dating.

Malta asks Porcina if she is involved in Roberto's disappearance. Gerson declares his love for Linda. Lulu borrows a dress from Linda. Tania goes to pick up Roberto at the inn.

Dondinha overhears João Ligeiro saying he's in love with another woman. An old acquaintance goes to the nightclub looking for Matilde. Porcina tells Malta she's going to buy her wedding dress.

Porcina meets Roberto Mathias at the inn. Zé das Medalhas tells Jiló that Mocinha has the original saints made by Roque Santeiro. Tânia looks for Roberto at the boarding house.

Roberto tells Sinhozinho Malta that he has nothing to do with Tânia. Malta tells the widow Porcina that he is considering allowing Tânia and Roberto to date. Linda buys Porcina's land.

Tânia argues with Sinhozinho. The tailor Jura, a friend of Matilde, arrives in town to make the widow Porcina's dress. Tânia declares her love for Roberto. Roque returns to town.

Roque looks for a room at Matilde's inn and is surprised by how much Asa Branca has grown. Roque goes to church and, without anyone seeing, leaves the monstrance on the altar.

Roque watches the filming of the scene in which he is killed by the gang of the bandit Navalhada. Everyone believes the monstrance descended from heaven. Mocinha faints upon seeing Roque.

Matilde tells the story of the legend of Roque to Roque himself, without knowing who he is. Roque goes to confess to Father Hipólito.

Father Hipólito faints and Roque begs for forgiveness. Father Hipólito discovers the truth about what happened seventeen years earlier, when a razor-wielding attack swept through the city, and tells Florindo about it.

Roque and Porcina meet, but Roque makes no mention of knowing her. Alone with Roque, Porcina tells him that Sinhozinho Malta invented the whole story of her marriage to Roque.

Roque sleeps at Porcina's house. Sinhozinho Malta, worried, goes home but returns the next day looking for Roque, and Mina informs him that he has left.

Roque learns that his father has become a saint. Florindo, Father Hipólito, and Sinhozinho Malta go to Roque to tell him what they have decided about his fate, but they cannot reach an agreement.

Terêncio catches Roberto and Tânia kissing and tells Sinhozinho Malta, who gets upset. Sinhozinho offers Roque money to disappear from Asa Branca.

Luizão asks Lulu to let his daughter film the scene where, at eight years old, she had a vision of Roque. When Lulu goes to explain how it all happened, she looks ahead and sees Roque.

Roque appears in the room and Sinhozinho Malta plays a trick to hide him from Pombinha, intriguing everyone. Malta catches Roberto and Tânia together and orders Terêncio to capture the actor.

Sinhozinho Malta takes Roberto Mathias to his home, surprising his daughter. Mirna sees the saints in Roque's room and discovers that the guest used to be a saint maker.

Porcina, Sinhozinho Malta, and the mayor meet and ask the priest to tell Roque Santeiro to leave Asa Branca and say that this is God's will.

Ninon hears the werewolf's howl again. Roque witnesses the end of a pilgrimage by a man who made a promise to Roque Santeiro and carried a cross from Belo Horizonte to Asa Branca.

Roque says in front of the mayor and the colonel that he needs to tell the truth and asks the priest for advice, who says he can't help him. Ninon and Rosaly arm themselves to welcome the werewolf.

Beato Salu doesn't believe Roque and makes a scandal. Sinhozinho Malta acts so that Beato Salu doesn't talk too much to the people of the city and decides to have him hospitalized.

Sinhozinho Malta tries to convince Roque that his father will be well treated at the hospital. The police chief questions Flô about Beato Salu's hospitalization. Ninon goes in search of the werewolf.

Porcina sees Lulu and Roque talking and gets jealous. Ninon receives an order from the police chief to appear at the station. Gerson kisses Linda, but she slaps him.

Porcina refuses to send Roque away from her house. Marcelina reveals to Pombinha her suspicions about her daughter's death. Marilda, Roberto Mathias' wife, arrives in Asa Branca.

Matilde visits Beato Salu, discovers that Roque Santeiro has returned, and tells the girls that the nightclub is finally going to close. Roberto tells Tânia that he is married, and she is shocked.

Gerson decides to give an initial screening of the film to just a few guests. Matilde tells Sinhozinho Malta that she already knows Roque Santeiro is back, and he tries to deceive her.

Sinhozinho Malta relays the order to reopen the nightclub to Flô. Roque looks for Porcina by the pool. Tânia tells Matilde that they need to talk.

Mocinha refuses to accept the reopening of Matilde's nightclub and resigns from her job at the city hall. Lulu confesses to Father Hipólito her desire for a mysterious man. Roque visits his father once again.

Upon learning of the nightclub's reopening, Father Hipólito seeks out Matilde. Friar Albano tries to convince Zé das Medalhas to open a daycare center for the children of the female factory workers.

(The chapter numbering follows that of the original broadcast, without loss of content or continuity.) Marilda leaves a note for Roberto. Zé das Medalhas decides to open the daycare center. Malta orders Terêncio to give medicine to the devout Salu.

Mocinha recounts seeing a woman shooting at Roberto. Marilda runs away. Malta discovers that Roberto is married.

Malta agrees to take Roberto to Rio de Janeiro for surgery. Terêncio tries to poison the holy man Salu, but by mistake, a nurse succeeds, and Salu falls into a coma.

Roque goes to the hospital and discovers his father is in a coma. Roque and Porcina sleep together. Roberto undergoes surgery. Tânia suspects Terêncio. Lulu goes to visit Beato Salu.

Lulu meets Roque and confesses her feelings to him. Jiló tells Zé das Medalhas that he saw Lulu with another man. Tânia visits Porcina and becomes suspicious of Roque's treatment of her.

In Rio de Janeiro, Sinhozinho Malta goes out with a secretary and invites her to his apartment. Ninon is almost attacked by the werewolf when Rosaly arrives and it flees.

Zé das Medalhas can't find out who the man is who gave Lulu a ride. At the hospital, Roberto wakes up and is surprised to find Marilda, who forcibly kisses him.

Marilda runs away. Tânia asks her father to take Roberto to the farm. Father Hipólito tells the devout women that he wants to disassociate Roque's image from the church, and they ask Porcina for help.

Roque hides and Mocinha is presumed insane. Jiló tells Zé das Medalhas that the man he's looking for lives in the widow Porcina's house. Zé das Medalhas sees Lulu with Roque.

Roque is about to reveal himself to Zé das Medalhas when Porcina intervenes and lies about her identity. Marcelina finds documents in her daughter's room that could incriminate Malta.

Zé looks for Flô, who reminds him of the danger they all face if Roque is discovered. Porcina hugs Roque, says she's very scared, and kisses him.

Marcelina fears that Tânia will discover her father's true character. Matilde doesn't recognize Amparito. Sinhozinho Malta is furious when he discovers that Roberto and Tânia are in the same room.

Marcelina says she is going to Rio to solve some problems and Malta suspects that she has seen some document in her room. Malta orders the death of Salu, this time without fail.

Jiló tells Zé das Medalhas that Lulu and Roque were in the hospital together and he decides to buy a revolver. Tito and Linda argue about the factory. Gerson and Linda kiss.

Roque and Sinhozinho Malta argue and Porcina intervenes, preventing one of them from committing a crime. Feeling rejected, the children of Zé das Medalhas and Lulu run away from home.

Zé das Medalhas discovers that his children are in a shack. Malta and others decide to take justice into their own hands and, at the police station, a mob threatens to lynch the man.

Porcina demands that Malta bring Roque back to her house, but he refuses to return. A strange man arrives in Asa Branca and asks Lulu where the Sossego inn is located.

Sinhozinho Malta goes to pick up Tânia at the forró dance, but gives up when he sees she's with Roque. Porcina goes to the forró secretly, dances with Roque, and manages to escape being caught by Malta.

Mocinha sees Roque again, faints, and tells Astromar that Roque wants her to be a virgin. Porcina questions Malta about the wedding, and he says that Father Hipólito wouldn't officiate the ceremony.

Porcina decides to reveal the truth about her fake marriage to Roque to Father Hipólito, under the condition of confession. Sinhozinho Malta discovers that one of his cows has gone missing.