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 ...

A família Bourbon de Linhaça, conhecida em Santarém como uma das mais influentes famílias de que há memória, é dona da herdade do Pôr do Sol, rica em cereja da melhor qualidade e de cavalos que são campeões mundiais de corrida. Mas nem tudo são rosas e as desgraças começam a bater à porta dos Bourbon de Linhaça. A ovelha negra da família, o irmão calculista e sombrio do senhor engenheiro, arquiteta vários planos para acabar com a hegemonia do patriarca da família, ao mesmo tempo que, do passado, surge a figura de uma filha perdida, fruto de um romance tórrido entre a dona da casa e o caseiro, que vai abalar os alicerces desta herdade, colocando em causa tudo e todos.

Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her children's father has disappeared. She works as a cashier at a supermarket by day and at night works in a strip club, trying not only to raise her children but also to pay off the debts that her ex-partner left her. Harassed in both jobs, one day she reacts violently when a nightclub client is more daring, being sentenced in court to perform community service in a nursing home, where her irreverence and youth will clash with the authoritarianism and inhumanity of the director. For the elderly who live in the nursing home, Vera is a breath of fresh air that little by little will change their lives, becoming the true home fairy…

Based on the work by Fernando Pessoa - a "message" about the destinies of Portugal - not just in isolation but looking at them as precursors and announcers of the fate of the entire planet.