Luisa e Manuel casaram-se recentemente e pouco mais possuem do que um mundo de ilusões. Manuel julga-se um Tarzan capaz de enfrentar todas as ameaças. O casal vai habitar um apartamento, não mobilado, situado num 5º andar, com uma excelente vista sobre o Tejo. Para Manuel esta inexistência de mobília não lhe complica a vida.Mas Luisa só aceita aquela situação porque gosta muito do seu marido. A pouco e pouco, as coisas complicam-se e só o nascimento de um filho vai fazer com que recuperem a esperança num futuro melhor.

film directed by Perdigão Queiroga

Aurora is a modest young girl, working as dressmaker for the women her popular district, near the OPorto cathedral. One day, through a hintz-dress design competition, she gets involved with a haut couture atelier.

1952 Portuguese film by Manuel Guimarães

1950 film by Arthur Duarte

Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar's rector accept it, and António accepts it - if not for piety, for obeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery and into the prison-like system of a seminar, doubts and anguishes mount within him.

André (Curado Ribeiro), is a son of a wealthy family who meets a girl called Luisinha (Milu). Luisinha lives at a small pension house with Rita (Maria Olguim) and Januário (João Silva), who are as parents to her, and with mr. Simplício Costa (António Silva), better known as Costa do Castelo, a lazy but highly talented guitar player who together with (Hermínia Silva) reaches success.