​Elias, a successful executive at a large private bank in Brazil, meets a mysterious embroiderer who says she can see the future. She tells him that he will become vice president of the bank that same day, and soon after that he will become president. Elias tells his wife, Clara, who, intrigued by the predictions, suggests that he invite the president of the bank round for dinner. The wheel of fortune turns and the couple commit a series of murders, leaving a trail of blood on their path to power and turning them into perpetrators and victims of their own destiny.​