19살의 줄리오는 시골 고향 마을을 떠나 리스본에 도착한다. 작은 신발 가게의 점원으로 일하게 된 그는 부잣집의 하녀로 일하는 일다와 가까워진다. 줄리오는 곧 일다에게 사랑을 느끼고 그녀에게 구애를 하지만 두 사람의 서로 다른 삶의 모습은 줄리오에게 큰 벽으로 다가온다. 파울로 로샤 감독의 데뷔작.
After a fatal crash involving her brother, Elsa tries to escape her corrupt & prejudiced background, making Francisco (the victim’s dad) – a wealthy family’s driver – resign himself with the unavoidable so as not to compromise his employer’s son, thus trying to gain something from the tragedy.
The vicissitudes of a bourgeois family and the conflicts emerged between brothers - Dr. Manuel Bernardo, wise and weighted, and Zecas, libertine and Capricious - who ignore his kinship. Two girls mark the sentimental vector: one defends the danger that threatens the threat, the other does not know how to react and is the victim of her ingenuity, a dream of restless youth ...
Eduardo, the son of the wealthy farmer Jerónimo de Vinhais, falls in love and departs for Lisbon with the fado singer Maria da Graça, after studying abroad, and refusing his father "too" to be a taurenic knight.
