Случайная встреча подталкивает 25-летнего растамана из Португалии Джона броситься на поиски своих корней в Кабо-Верде. Парень считает, что визит к отцу поможет ему обрести себя. Однако приключение проходит не столь гладко...
Ana
In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad ! The residents of a tower block in the suburbs will save parrots and piss inside lifts while surrounded by dead people and ghosts; including in fact a dog that…”. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.
Santa
Умирая, эксцентричная старушка просит двух соседок разыскать некоего мужчину. Женщины находят незнакомца, который рассказывает им трогательную историю их любви в колониальной Африке и их преступления, после которого они больше никогда не виделись.
Irene
Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most popular television show of the year, when he receives an ultimatum from his 18-year-old daughter Leonor. If he does not come home that same evening to celebrate her birthday he will never see her again. Ricardo is distracted by business or other commitments and he is too late for the last flight home. When he returns next day the apartment is empty and Leonor is gone. At first Ricardo thinks that it is only a game, but there are no phone calls or messages and after a while he gets worried and starts looking for her. He discovers that she has quit school without telling him and that she has lost all contact with her old friends. She has become a complete stranger.
Teresa
Автобусные остановки, интервью при приеме на работу, грязные кафе, метро, ночь, торговые центры района, магазины, стоянки автомобилей, больницы, встречи в пивных, где убивает время Антониу...