Carlos Santos é um fervoroso benfiquista que vive na esperança de concretizar o negócio perfeito com o seu clube do coração, mas é na cidade invicta que terá que tentar fechar negócio.

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..

Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.