Johnny, an old musician and dismissed poet, he frequents a bar from São Paulo daily, where he ends up making friends with a waiter, that always serves him, because he knows their extravagances, how to drink and to write poetries in napkins. Johnny finds in that waiter a confidant to tell your principal sorrow, the one of he being abandoned by his former-wife Leninha, that changed him for a youth 20 years younger than her, after two decades of a marriage.

The old musician didn't get to understand her confession when she had told him that the last son, that him so much he loved, he didn't belong to him and yes fruit of another passion, which, he made to doubt him if the other two children belonged really to him. In the table of the bar, he gets drunk and he spills his rage with long words, he insults God and Christmas and the waiter friend helps him calming down and he leads him outside. He leaves swaying, it falls in the sarjeta and it is dirtied with the water and the mud brought by the rain. On that night, previous day of Christmas rains a lot and him wet and, swaying for the sidewalk, he is shocked with the people, that deviate of him with disgust and repulse glance, until stopping in the shop window of a toy store, where he is crying when reminding of the distant children, that on that night they would not have the father's presence. He feels bad and vomits on the shop window, dirtying it all. He leaves a furious salesperson, that attacks him and he throws him again in the drain.

The Northeastern Pension arrives, where he lives, he crosses the main corridor of the remained, he enters in his room, that has the number 13 and he closes the door, forgetting to shut up. In the room he sits down in the bed. It ties the radio and Roberto is heard singing " The HURT " WILD ANIMAL. (Fera Ferida) he turns off the radio with violence and he says for himself that is a damned music. He contemplates for an instant, he looks at the mute servant and he sees a brilliant object, it picks it, he rotates the drum and he verifies that is municiated. It is a firearm nickel-plated. He deposits the firearm again on the piece of furniture, he opens the drawer, he removes of her a block of letters and he begins to write a farewell letter, driven the former-wife, unfaithful Leninha, that betrayed him after twenty years of marriage. He places the letter inside of an envelope, he writes her name and he places the envelope on the furniture. He picks the firearm and carry it again to until the ear. He arms the trigger, he places the finger in him, he closes the eyes and waits for the final explosion. Total silence.

Sudden, the door of the room opens up. Appears a smiling Northeastern girl, with a plate covered with a napkin. She looks at Johnny, he fakes not to see the firearm, that him, constrained, quickly he lowers, he dismantles the trigger, with a false smile, of child been hit in a prank. He places the firearm, of that time, inside of the drawer. He kneads the letter and it threw it in the trash. She wishes her a Merry Christmas and she offers him a plate with vatapá from Bahia, of her birthplace, "porreta" of hot (spicy), like him likes and she asks that eats, before it cools.

In answer, he rises, he gives a hug and wants a Merry Christmas. He is going until the window and opens her. The light of the luminous ones Christmas penetrates to the room. A beautiful music of Christmas is heard, announcing that Jesus was born. They are hugged contemplating the shine of the stars and thanking Christmas, that really arrived for our Johnny and all the humanity.

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