O confronto de dois temperamentos díspares: Figueiredo, um fanqueiro trabalhador e sóbrio; o seu cunhado, José, desordenado e gastador, herdeiro duma família com títulos nobiliárquicos, mas pobre. Figueiredo tenta resgatar José desse caminho de perversão que o levara a investir numa tentativa de furto, seguida dum homicídio frustrado e sedução...
[Fonte: José de Matos-Cruz, O Cais do Olhar, 1999, pág.69]
José Augusto
Having abandoned his family due to religious differences, Dr Silveira moves to Coimbra, where he dedicates himself to his patients, and rejecting any attempts at reconciliation. But, when a terrible accident happens to his son, he must seek a resolution to the debate between faith and science.
A vida, o quotidiano, os costumes pitorescos, as zangas, as rivalidades e as paixões da pequena comunidade saloia da periferia de Lisboa, que se encarregava da lavagem da roupa no rio.
Adaptation of the homonymous novel by Júlio Dantas. Trying to highlight the romantic tone, the ruralism of the picturesque situations and environments, the spirit and characters of 1863 are revived: the characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinguished morals of Pedro and Daniel, the bonhomie of João Semana, finally the disagreements , common sense, tenderness, rituals and landscape involvement of Minho.
