Barreto Poeira

The tragedy of a woman who - after seven years of vain searches - gave up hope of finding her husband, a knight lost in battle in Marroc with Sebastião, king of Portugal. She marries, has a daughter by her second husband, and endures the silent reproach of an aid, Telmo Pais, the only who kept his hope that his master shall return, as well as the king... One day, a mysterious pilgrim arrives at the mansion.

The agitated and tragic life of poet Castro Alves, and his romance with actress Eugênia Câmara.

Año 1288. El reino de Portugal se ve asolado por las luchas entre el rey Dionis (Dionisio I) y su hermano don Alfonso. Con la boda de Dionis e Isabel, hija del rey Pedro III, convenida cuando ella era sólo una niña, surge la alianza entre Portugal y Aragón. En medio de las intrigas de los cortesanos, Isabel se refugia en la piedad, al tiempo que la mortifica el hecho de no haber podido dar un heredero a su marido, que tiene varios hijos bastardos. Además Don Álvaro, confidente del monarca, odia a don Nuño, que le derrotó en duelo, y le hace creer a Dionis que su esposa es amante de dicho caballero.

After the brother's death by a bull, the "Bezoiro", Manuel refuses to succeed him as mayoral, the very day he marries Maria Loba.

Félix Holgado, poderoso industrial de la construcción, aplica la política de ir eliminando paulatinamente a las mujeres que tiene empleadas sustituyéndolas por hombres. Esta situación afecta a Marisa que, al perder su trabajo, ve aumentar las dificultades para cuidar de sus cuatro hermanas. Aprovechando que Félix marcha a Vigo para descansar unos días, los criados de su casa organizan una juerga a la que se incorpora Marisa, que ha ido a hablar con su ex-jefe y ha sido confundida por los criados. El industrial tiene una avería en su coche y, al regresar a su casa sorprende borrachos a los criados y los despide. Marisa, que ha presenciado todo escondida, decide sustituirlos con sus hermanas para demostrar que "todo lo que el hombre hace lo puede hacer mejor la mujer".

The confrontation of two different temperaments: Figueiredo, a hard-working shopkeeper; his brother-in-law, José, disorderly and wasteful, heir to a family with noble titles but poor. Figueiredo tries to rescue José from this path of perversion that had led him to invest in an attempted theft, followed by a frustrated murder and seduction ...

The fatalism caught up and the amorous tragedy between Teresa de Albuquerque and Simão Botelho, who survives the intolerant litigation of her noble families.

Having abandoned his family due to religious differences, Dr Silveira moves to Coimbra, where he dedicates himself to his patients, and rejecting any attempts at reconciliation. But, when a terrible accident happens to his son, he must seek a resolution to the debate between faith and science.

In Porto Santo, a small island next to Madeira the drought rages and Gonçalves, a local farmer, tries to overcome the catastrophe, with the help of Bastiana, whom he dearly loves. João Venâncio, who refuses to share the water of his field, tries to steal her heart. One day Gonçalves decides to fight for his beloved, beating violently Venâncio in front of an enthusiastic crowd.