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Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.

Tells of the forbidden love between Rosa, a beautiful minhota, and Fernando, a voluble young man who studied medicine in Porto, spending holidays in the village.

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.

Luísa, three years ago, Jorge's wife, who is about to leave on a mission to the Alentejo, is aware of the arrival of his cousin Basilio, after a long stay in Brazil, where he seems to have made a fortune.

Simão loves Teresa whose father wants her to marry cousin Baltazar instead. The two lovers meet secretly; Baltazar pays a thug to kill his rival, and Simão is badly wounded. Teresa is forced into a convent. Mariana - who secretly loves Simão - treats him, and helps him to escape. SPOILERS AHEAD Baltazar intervenes, and this time the two rivals fight, and one of them dies. The love story will end tragically to the survivors. Simão is sentenced to prison in India - which amounts to a death sentence. Mariana goes with him, but neither will survive the voyage. Teresa dies in her convent, after receiving a last love letter from Simão.

Modern version of the Cinderella story.

The amorous sacrifices of the daughter of Tomé da Póvoa, Berta, with the gentleman Jorge and, in parallel, the warm connection of the other son of Dom Luis, Maurício, with dedicated cousin Gabriela.

To shorten the way, Bonifácio Mendes a small-minded muleteer decides to cross the Mafra cover.

Frankly, the Jewish banker Carlos Gold manages to transform into his criminal instrument a certain adventurer, who had tried to steal it after losing, in a gambling house, all the money he had.

The ordeal of Maria das Dores, a young woman who, to escape the ill-treatment of her drunken father, to the misery and horror of an equivocal situation, runs away from home.

An interesting comedy (of Ads), in "unpretentious production".

Traveling by car to Sintra, a mysterious lady, arriving in Lisbon by ship, is the victim of an accident.

Between the elegant areas of Cascais and Lisbon, dangerous delinquent Barbanegra acts under the identity of the insinuating Marquis de Serpa.

Dominated by his wife, counselor Faustino Soares gets his revenge by having affairs with maids.