Jorge Sousa Costa

The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.

"Amo-te Teresa" é uma história sobre amores proibidos. Regressada à vila da sua infância, Teresa uma médica desiludida com o amor, vai reviver o passado e comprometer o futuro numa paixão sem limites. Ao chegar, Teresa vai chocar com Miguel, um jovem de 15 anos que tem uma vida aparentemente normal e inocente. Miguel tem uma beleza invulgar e um grau de sensibilidade que marca qualquer pessoa. A mãe e o pai de Miguel vêem em Teresa, para além de uma amiga, uma mulher realizada e senhora de si mesma. A chegada de Teresa e a relação que vai manter com Miguel põem a vila em alvoroço.

The difficult reunion between a tough young mother and her neglected daughter provide impetus this gritty, but upbeat French drama. Daisy, a typical young woman of the X-generation, seems to have no ambition in her life; she lives for the moment and the moment is often self-destructive. Abused as a child, she affects toughness and bravado to disguise her inner fears. Mona, Daisy's seven-year old daughter, is the result of the sexual abuse Daisy suffered while she was a child. Mona was raised by her father, but after he went to prison and his girlfriend rejected her, Mona must return to her mother. The reunion is not joyful and the two must lower plenty of mutual barriers if they are to bond. When Mona's lover Sami is arrested for a shooting, Daisy and Mona go on the lam. To survive they become con-artists and petty thieves. Just as things start to improve, finds out that her new boss has been having her deliver kiddie-porn.

Pregnant girl in trouble teams up with a young boy to find the mother of the boy.

No passado século XIX, em ilha deserta do Atlântico, dá-se o encontro entre Pierre Duchemin, jovem marinheiro dum barco francês, e Hunila, solitária desde a morte do marido, Filipe, e do irmão, que exploravam os parcos recursos da pesca à tartaruga. Esta relação paradisíaca terá, porém, um fim e, recolhida por um veleiro português, em 1830, Hunila conta a sua história.

João Eduardo, a young inexperienced doctor, takes up work in a village. The initial skepticism from the community gives place to esteem for the new physician after some well succeeded cases.

On the verge of being expelled from his home for not paying his debts, a government employee is mistaken for an inspector and decides to use that as an advantage.