They Don't Wear Black Tie

“The class struggle is, above all, familiar.”

Tião (Carlos Alberto Riccelli) works at a factory and wants to keep the job, with a girlfriend, Maria (Bete Mendes), and a future he does not care to gamble on a strike. His father Otávio (Gianfrancesco Guarnieri), a union leader, is trying to organize the same workers against the company. Leon Hirszman puts the two men across one family table, with Romana (Fernanda Montenegro) standing between them.