João Saboga

The emotional journey of Yulya, a fragile and precious young woman.

Após a derrota na Batalha do Bussaco, as tropas francesas do Marechal Massena forçam as forças anglo-portuguesas a retirar para Lisboa. Para defender a capital, bem como a eventual retirada dos ingleses, Wellington fez erguer, num ano e meio e no maior segredo, o maior sistema de defesa que Portugal já viu: as Linhas de Torres Vedras. A retirada, acompanhada de uma operação de "terra-queimada", é o pano de fundo para uma história de dramas pessoais, em que as vidas de várias pessoas diferentes são profundamente afectadas pela guerra e pela devastação.

João lives on a shabby suburban estate. He is always in trouble with the grown-ups, who don't seem to understand that his flamboyant behavior stems from his insecurity and desperation.

Verão de 1870. Dois escritores, Eça de Queirós e Ramalho Ortigão, escrevem um policial a quatro mãos para o Diário de Notícias. Ramalho é raptado. O desafio está lançado.

Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with whom he had remained married a few months only 16 years earlier, is now a famous movie star called Louise Sandoli. But, more than her name, everything about Louise seems to have changed. Ordo decides to meet Estelle again, after all these years, to know what it's all about...

Nuno, a boy of nine, runs away from home on the night of the 24th of April 1974. He hides in a mysterious building that is being abandoned in great haste. People are running down the stairs, cars are leaving, finally Nuno and a dog are the only ones left. They become friends and fall asleep together. In the morning they wake up with screams from the street. Nuno thinks that it is his mother calling for him and runs to the window. The street its full of people, tanks and soldiers. It’s the 25th of April. And Nuno believes that it was his mother who made the revolution just to find him.

A man who grew up in the '80s, in the midst of the pirate-radio scene, works now at a big, modern radio station, but still holds on to his love for a mysterious female lead singer of a now long gone band. He sets himself to start another pirate-radio, now unlegalized, trying to find her.

25 anos depois, um grupo de amigos do liceu decidem organizar uma reunião, mas ao contrário do que é esperado, esses 'velhos amigos' aperceber-se-ão que tempo terá acentuado as suas diferenças. A atmosfera é tensa, um episódio despertará a verdadeira natureza de cada um.

A middle-aged musician speaks of various themes - innocence, friendship, seduction, fascination, love, death - immediately portrayed in paintings, which the actors interpret, in different situations from the character they embody. In the spotlight, a young photographer, a strange-looking dancer / model, a bullfighter who lives his dream, a retired old man ...