Sofia Alves

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.

Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda, Laura's sister, whose husband is in prison for murder. Fernanda is aware of Laura's relationship with her husband and constantly threatens them to tell Armando everything. Laura and Armando have a daughter - Sónia - whose greatest defect is greediness and the highest quality to cover up her mother's romance with her uncle. The fear of the two lovers increases and events precipitate when they receive the news that Armando is about to go on parole ...

Рохерио, богатый молодой человек, и его загадочная жена Леонор устраивают вечеринку в саду свой роскошной виллы на острове Сан-Мигел. Среди приглашенных есть одна весьма занятная пара постарше: философски настроенная и наблюдательная Ирен и престарелый распутник Мишель. Пары «меняются партнерами», словно в танце: Рохерио беседует с Ирен, в то время, как Леонор идет к морю с Мишелем. Если разговор с Ирен расстраивает Рохерио, то беседа с Мишелем всецело захватывает воображение Леонор. Проходит пять лет. На той же вилле накрыт стол на четырех. Мишель и Леонор снова покидают своих спутников. Куда приведут их трудно различимые «подводные течения»?

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, a father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a lover.

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanticism to popular, modernist and even "post-modernist" styles. In the initially tame story, a host-narrator tells the story of a wedding between the two lovebirds: Viscount d'Aveleda and the beautiful Marguerite. However, what happens in the bridal chamber is incredibly bizarre. The events after that are even stranger (the film out-does even Luis Buñuel in that department), and the wedding guests and family indulge in cannibalism, among other perversions.