Um fidalgo marialvista, D. Luís apaixona-se pela fadista Maria do Amparo, que põe fim à efémera relação, aceitando o amor dum companheiro de adolescência, recém-chegado de África. O ciúme e o despeito transtornam o imprevisível nobre, até se convencer de que tudo acabou, resignando-se ao afecto desinteressado de uma jovem...

The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North. Brás is a ruined man, a bohemian with a reputation for violence and erratic behaviour. Antonia’s fortune is the first sacrifice made by the young wife. Fascinated by the man who humiliates and ill-treats her, she follows him in a pilgrimage to increasingly barren lands, to increasingly less hospitable houses.

Reflections on life and death unfold through the eyes of Jorge, the head doctor of the Haematology Department, whose world is plunged into despair when he falls in love with Clarisse, a woman suffering from advanced leukemia.

1975 film by Alberto Seixas Santos