Vicente and Margarita are a traditional and middle class married couple whose life is surrounded by a sea of confusion and uncertainty when their children begin to make their own decisions. They have discovered love and will not let their parents tell them what to do or who they have to love. The principles and traditions of the family will be replaced by each of the young people who will represent the different social problems of the time. Thus, the coexistence between them will change without Vicente and Marga can do anything to avoid it.
Two couples live through attraction, distraction, sympathy, friendship, quarrel, jealousy, fidelity, and the Devil supervises it all by delivering solemn warnings in choice moments.
Janine Reynaud stars as a nightclub stripper who free-floats through a spectral 60's landscape littered with dream-figures, dancing midgets and bizarre S&M games.
Leonel is a pianist, nostalgic of sweet melodies, while his son is the (real-life) leader of Os Gatos Pretos (black cats), a twist musical group. The conflict is eventu ally solved when Leonel's daughter, Cilinha, starts dating Raúl, a well-off young man, who promote a new dancing club, the Lisboa Antiga e Moderna, where old new music get even shares.
가난한 소작농인 제 도 부로(레오나르도 빌라 분)는 산타 바바라 성당에 가져다 놓을 거대한 십자가를 어깨에 지고 그의 아내 로사(글로리아 메네제스 분)와 함께 그들이 살던 Bahia의 작은 마을을 떠나 42km나 떨어진 살바도르로 향한다. 그들은 성녀에게 전 재산을 가난한 이웃들에게 나누어 주고 십자가를 봉헌하겠다는 맹세를 하고 그 맹세를 지키기 위해 성당까지 힘들게 걸어가지만 신부(디오니시오 아즈베도 분)는 '이교도적인 우상 숭배'라며 부부를 질타한다. 1950년대 브라질 인기 배우이기도 했던 안셀모 두아르테 감독은 이 영화로 1962년 칸 국제영화제 황금종려상을 수상했다.
The characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct moral of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana, and the dissidents, sensibility, tenderness, rituals and landscape involvement of the Minho.
