On a farm in the north of Portugal with a vineyard surrounded by a forest, where the past and present mix, a mother and a daughter, in a fight for reconciliation, try to overcome the anguish that still torments them. Will there be a change after this fight?
“1618” is a film about the inquisitorial visit to Porto that encountered resistance from priests, ordinary citizens and the city authorities themselves, all accustomed for centuries to living alongside the Jews.
In 1496, King D. Manuel prohibited Judaism. 400 years later, Barros Basto, a Portuguese army captain converted to Judaism, and about twenty Jewish merchants founded the Jewish Community of Oporto, in the north of Portugal.