Newly single Carlo begins dating a street performer with a violent ex-husband and an autistic 7-year-old daughter. As he observes the child's behavior, Carlo suspects an additional diagnosis: deafness.
Carlo meets his stepson's girlfriend Janaína who Carlo believes is a cutter.
Carlo breaks up a lovers' quarrel at a restaurant and the couple turn up at his office looking for a 'cure' to their pattern of fighting in order to wind up in bed exploring shared sexual fantasies. The pair involve Carlo and his colleague Valentina in their dangerous games which go far beyond the consulting office.
A former patient returns to see Carlo after his wife passes away, trying to understand what he saw the moment she died, which he believes to be her soul departing from her body.
A policeman and friend of Carlo's asks Carlo to help diagnose his 'partially demented' father.
Carlo's biological son Mark arrives from New York and soon becomes interested in Carlo's neighbor Bia and her chronically ill baby.
Carlo embarks upon an affair with Sabrina, a young Goth who engages in vampirism and indulges in late-night parties in a Sao Paulo cemetery.
A patient with pedophiliac desires begins receiving threats from his neighbor.
Carlo is called upon by a group of siblings as they decide whether or not to "pull the plug" on their mother.
Carlo takes on a case of an elderly couple with the shared delusion that they will be taken to a concentration camp.
After a patient is murdered, Carlo and the police retrace the victim's sexual exploits.
Carlo meets both an Assistant District Attorney who is fighting a court motion for a sex change and the petitioner in the case; a Muslim couple deals with an issue with prejudice directed toward their son.
Carlo becomes bored with listening to his patients' seemingly monotonous problems and reassesses the meaning of his profession.