All this environment also retains an extraordinary admiration for Europe. This is the continent that represents the culture that excites them, this is the place they choose for their journey, this is the place that calls them if they want to develop, become independent, get out of the narrow confines of their homeland and feel part of a world that develops and includes them. . Thus, the author has the opportunity to capture the attitude to life. He is concerned about the abolition of slavery, as well as the existing connection of his country as a colony with the metropolis of Portugal, he tries to define the boundaries of realism and romance, inconsistently oscillating between them, he is concerned about blood relations. , by blood and by relationships that we choose uncritically, based only on love.

Aires wanders around Rio de Janeiro and remembers him again after a long absence, but at the same time says goodbye to him with the realization that he does not have long to live, in inverse proportion to the emotions that the city causes in him, the birth of love, the maintenance of long-term, for life, good marital relations of his friends, caring for his sister. To, perhaps, conclude that everyone loves in their own way. The path is not of great importance, the main thing is that he knows how to love.