Teresa Olga

Pedro is a young agricultural worker who gets caught in the middle of a fight between two families, kills a man and escapes to the capital. He can't find work,resorts to begging, but keeps his mountaineer pride. He starts a new life with a prostitute who is nice to him, but nothing works. He returns home, and alone, and now he finds life there is sad as well.

Pedro is a young agricultural worker who gets caught in the middle of a fight between two families, kills a man and escapes to the capital. He can't find work,resorts to begging, but keeps his mountaineer pride. He starts a new life with a prostitute who is nice to him, but nothing works. He returns home, and alone, and now he finds life there is sad as well.

Retrato social típica de un país aislado y pobre, víctima de una ideología totalitaria. "Un universo parada y opresiva rural, roto por ausencias, desacuerdos o silencios, centrado en una pareja - Maria dos Prazeres, Álvaro Silvestre. Estado civil compromiso de relaciones, que se hizo añicos por el conflicto latente de pasiones, debilidades y deseos reprimidos ". Cit:. José de Matos-Cruz en Cais do mira, ed. Portuguesa Cinemateca, 1,999.

After a stint in the army fighting in Angola, a soldier comes home to find his sweetheart has married his brother. He makes advances towards his sister-in-law, but she turns him down. Discouraged, the man meets a new girlfriend who vows to escape the town's crushing poverty even if she has to steal.

Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a Medical Doctor, researcher on blood diseases, under the anguish of consulting a terminally ill young woman.