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.
The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.
제 1차 세계대전 중 포르투갈은 7만 5천명 이상의 군인들을 플랑드르로 보내 독일군과 맞서 싸운다. 전선에 투입된 포르투갈의 시골 출신 아니발 아우구스토 밀하이스는 매일 동료 병사들의 죽음을 지켜보며 연인이 기다리는 고향으로 돌아갈 꿈을 꾼다. 1차 대전에서 사상자가 가장 많은 전투였던 1918년 리스 강 전투에서 밀하이스는 부대원이 철수한 가운데 홀로 남아 독일군의 맹공격에 맞서 싸우며 전우들의 목숨을 지키려 고군분투하는데…
Inês is a teenager from a wealthy family. However, after classes, he participates in risky sexual games, compulsively uses the internet and attends the nightlife of Lisbon, entering a spiral of total destruction.
