Her mother has just died. Her father is not what she had thought. Caught between an uncertain past, which she knows only through the photographs her mother has left behind, and the prospect of a marriage that she does not really want, Elisa sets out to discover the truth. But will she recognize it when she finds it?

Pepe e Rafa são dois irmãos que passam a vida a sonhar com o regresso do pai (Rafael) que os abandonou há quinze anos atrás. Pepe é mecânico de profissão e vive na periferia de Lisboa com o irmão, dois anos mais novo, a mãe, Lena, e a avó, a quem todos chamam Pipa. Mas quando Rafael inesperadamente reentra na vida dos filhos, o peso do seu passado vem desequilibrar a delicada teia familiar. De uma forma tão urgente quanto violenta, Rafa e Pepe confrontam-se então com o verdadeiro valor da relação que os mantém unidos. Até quando?

It’s 1942, and Portugal languishes under dictatorship and WWII rages just beyond its borders. Secrets, half-truths, and mistrust prevail in the state security office of chief inspector Varga, who makes professional privilege a cover for his unprofessional interest in a boldly carnal refugee and her alleged brother. Director/writer Saboga (screenwriter for Raúl Ruiz’s MYSTERIES OF LISBON) saturates the dark world of this predatory tale with steamy eroticism and paranoia, starting with the incestuous desires of his bi-curious adolescent daughter and including the family maid.

Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...

Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds. Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon brothels, but she is such a special girl that a rich man invites her to live in his house and presents her to the high society of Lisbon. But her past will not stop chasing her and Salomé, who thought that this would be the beginning of a new life, will eventually lose everything by becoming an involuntary character of this miracle that agitated the country...

A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.

The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

十四岁的约翰从小就生长在修道院中，没有亲人，亦没有过去。一天，一位神秘的妇人安吉拉（玛利亚·若奥·巴斯托斯 Maria João Bastos 饰）找到了约翰，声称自己是他的亲生母亲，并且向约翰讲述了她曾经的故事。 安吉拉是侯爵的女儿，她和伯爵之子席尔瓦（何塞·阿方索·皮蒙特尔 José Afonso Pimentel 饰）相爱，遭到了父亲的强烈反对。然而，叛逆的安吉拉并没有屈服，她腹中怀着席尔瓦的孩子，决定与其私奔。暴怒的侯爵派出杀手刺杀席尔瓦，甚至连安吉拉腹中的胎儿也不放过，幸运的是，安吉拉得到了一位神父和令一位神秘人的帮助，约翰才得以长大。成年之后，约翰来到巴黎，遇见了一位贵妇，他答应帮助贵妇找到杀死她哥哥的凶手，让约翰没有想到的是，这名凶手竟然正是当初帮助过他和他母亲的神秘人。