Lúcia is raped by her husband and presses charges against him. She fights the Portuguese legal system along with the Prosecutor's Assistant, Maria João Correia, to forceher husband, the son of the State's Vice Attorney, intoCourt. The case takes place in closed session where Lúcia tries to find justice in a predominantly male world.
A discussion between close friends in a cheap hotel room in Prague. Stories and memories that don't tell the same tale about the events of the recent past.
Amanece en la mañana del 25 de Abril de 1974, cuando Marco, un joven italiano veinteañero y su amigo portugués, Víctor, dejan París en un Citröen de color amarillo. Su destino es Lisboa que, esa misma noche, se ha liberado de una de las dictaduras más duraderas. El deseo de tomar parte en un acontecimiento histórico, que ocurre una vez en la vida, más el entusiasmo de hacer un viaje juntos y la curiosidad de conocer diferentes lugares y gentes, arrastran a estos dos jóvenes a su nueva aventura. Pero la aventura no es está completa sin Claire, que fue la novia de Víctor en sus años estudiantiles de París. Claire está deseando tomar unas pequeñas vacaciones lejos de su rutina, de su marido y de su hijo. El trío compartirá experiencias inolvidables. El mítico Citröen, los maravillosos paisajes que atraviesan, las fronteras que cruzan, los numerosos encuentros que surgen en la carretera, la banda sonora que ofrece la radio: éstos son los ingredientes de un viaje que nunca olvidarán
A portuguese officer, supposedly dead in a mine explosion, is captured by the african guerrilla in Guiné (former portuguese colony) while his beloved wife Laura remain inconsolable in Portugal trying to believe that Jorge is still alive. Meanwhile an old Laura friend, a lieutenant, tries to convince Laura that Jorge is dead.
Eduardo has always been a secret Laura lover. The romance between them is however darkened with the phantom shadow of Jorge hanging over them..
In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, finds a world of magic, the love of Dolores (a young trapeze artist) and the family he never really had. Until a twist of fate turns João into a father...
