Manuela Carona

Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.

Tratamento dramático dos elementos que deram origem ao mito de Dona Inês de Castro, que depois de morta foi rainha. Inês de Castro revela-se uma mulher profundamente apaixonada por D. Pedro e com um plano político e a inteligência e a determinação necessárias para o aplicar - até à morte brutal que o interesse do Reino lhe impõe. D. Pedro não mais perdoará a quem lhe tirou a vida. Governará obcecado pela vingança.

O fascinante romance de António Tabucchi na visão de Fernando Lopes, que criou uma admirável fábula necrófila em tom de thriller policial, com Claude Brasseur Em Lisboa num prédio da zona ribeirinha um homem é abatido a tiro. Spino, patologista da Morgue de Lisboa, reconhece o cadáver como sendo ele próprio há trinta anos atrás. Encontra a fotografia de uma bela mulher nua e decide ele próprio fazer o seu inquérito. Percorre todos os passos do falecido até ao momento da morte dele, que é afinal a sua.

Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, daughter of the founder of the newspaper "Diário de Notícias", married to Alfredo da Cunha, then director of this newspaper, and mother of José, who is 20. This educated, cultured woman, falls in love with the chauffeur, who is youger than her and from a different social background. This passion leads to confronting the established order of things and the standards of social behaviour of a wife and mother. She may at the same time be heroine and victim of her own courage in deciding to make a final break from the whole family status and run off with the chauffeur. When his wife runs off with the chauffeur, Alfredo da Cunha with the aid of some of the eminent doctors of the day, has her declared irresponsible and incapable of administering her assets, and on this pretext he has her inprisoned in a mental hospital.

The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto.

A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist.

In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the characters and idea of each story. The first sketch is about a young man who shines shoes for a living, and tries to keep up a relationship with two women while convincing each she is his only true love. The next story is about a man who beats up his wife when he is drunk, and sells furs for a living. One day, as she is riding in the back of his truck with the furs, he hits a bad patch and she and some furs fall out. The question is, will the woman be enterprising and leave the jerk - or not? The third tale concerns a woman looking into how much control a prostitute has over her clients, and to really find out, she becomes a prostitute herself for awhile - leading to some quite unexpected situations. The last segment handles the uglier side of the life styles of the rich and famous.