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- Januario and his two daughters, Mel and Clara, live in Alentejo and work for Armando, as farmers. Mel and Armando's son, Bernardo, are secret lovers because their parents don't approve the relationship. Tired of hiding, Mel and Bernardo decide to run away. However, Clara discovers their plan and denounces them. Angry, Armando banishes the two sisters from his propriety and takes Bernardo with him and Januario for a business trip to Amsterdam. On the plane, among with them, goes Camila, a model that works for Helena, who later falls in love with the taxi driver and Camila's brother, Quim. Helena is a fashion designer who was kicked out of home by her father, Caetano, in the past. Januario, before going to Amsterdam, writes a letter to Caetano, saying that one of his daughters is actually Caetano's. During the trip to Amsterdam, the plane has some complications and crashes. The press reports that everyone died, except Camila, who is disfigured. However, Bernardo survived too and Camila knows it, but he decided to hide from everyone. When he returns, everything will be different.
- The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.
- Ana Maria was a modest young woman who loves Júlio, her guitarist. But when she becomes a famous singer and Júlio, feeling abandoned by her, decides to go to the African colonies, she will have to choose between fame and true love.
- Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.
- When Lucas, an amateur theater director, tries to become a professional, ends up fighting with Lico, an amateur actor. Things get worse when Lico falls in love with Lena, Lucas's niece, dating her without her uncle's permission.
- In XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz.
- The Silva family aspires to have a home. The inheritance of an aunt, who died in Argentina, comes to realize this desire, but raises new problems.
- When a businessman's car crashes and burns, inspector Moisés of the criminal brigade is given the case, as the body has been stabbed. He'll try to reconstruct the financier's personality by the mirrored impressions on those who knew him.
- Passion and ambition interplay to bring dissention and tragedy into the home of an old fisherman married to a much younger woman.
- Adriana Bento, an orphan who has been raised in a well off family, falls pregnant after being seduced by a man. Outraged, Senhor Bento, kicks her our of home. What he does not know is that her seducer is his own son, Raul, a brilliant law student. The latter becomes a lawyer and his first client is a young woman accused of having aborted after being seduced and abandoned. Which makes him think twice about his own attitude...
- Zé Luís, a hard-working man of Madragoa (popular district of Lisbon), loves Clara, the daughter of his godfather, the rich merchant Santana. Santana is rich enough to impose Zé Luís to marry a girl of his low social condition, Margarida, and to terminate Luís' employment at his shop, forcing him to work even harder at the docks. Santana goes bankrupt, Margarida dies of a disease, the parents of Zé Luís return very rich from Africa, and Zé Luís can marry lovely Clara, and help his godfather out of debt.
- Rosa Maria, whose father is a sailor, was picked up by Tomé, having a child of her son Renato, who is expelled from home.
- Being a literate person, and a degree of elementary school, is needed to get a good job, be it a professional truck driver, or a job abroad.
- The introduction of the bank checks in Portugal in the present, and the security that surrounds it, in confrontation with the traditional ways to keep bank notes hidden in a drawer or under a mattress.
- The life of a school teacher, from her first assignment to a remote mountain village, her cold reception by an illiterate population, and her achievement through persistent action and socializing, and human help to the many difficulties of those people - from illness, to family problems. Her most difficult task was to teach the adults, a government campaign to integrate people.
- Mariana and Joana are drawing sheep in elementary school; the teacher chooses Mariana's as the best, and pins it to the wall; then, the pleading stare of Joana leads her to make yet another choice, and pins Joana's sheep to the wall, too. Mariana and Joana seem to emulate and spy on each other all the time, and Joana happens to see how, after class, Mariana rips Joana's drawing from the wall exhibit, but in so doing, she drops an ink bottle on the floor. Joana does not say a word, but after Mariana leaves, she takes her rival's drawing off the wall, too. Next, the teacher demands that the culprit for the ink bottle to accuse herself. Mariana doesn't - and Joana comes forward, does taking the punishment she didn't deserve. Or did she? In a child-like ambiance, the very adult themes of envy, spying and fault.
- A child who learned to read can be helpful - and a shame - to the adults who were too lazy to attend school in their time - but now they have the opportunity to go to school again.
- Meia-Lua used to be a sailor, but he now makes a poor living smuggling. He is a cynical man, who doesn't care for Ana or for the child they had together. He lives with the beautiful Marlene who dances in the bars. Gull spends her whole days lulling a doll in her arms, and she waits for her love that will rise from the depths of the sea. The deaf musician Sparrow watches over her, in his despaired love and long-held wish of becoming a sea captain. There is a dispute down the piers, there is a crime that might be just an accident, there is a bad conscience that turns sour, there is a boat full of poor wretches like a rocking lullaby, a baby that passes from arms to arms, a clumsy beggar that finds some work, a courthouse of tramps... From this expressionist account that has unexpected comical moments, the censors from Salazar's regime cut away 20 minutes that were never to be found again.
- Sónia is an adventurous young woman, involved in research to produce a mass destruction weapon, in which two enemy countries are interested, for there is a war going on. She finds peace in a neutral country, Portugal, where she finds simplicity and oblivion of her troubles. Spies and counter-spies get to her again, and again she must flee...
- Castro Alves is the great poet of the black slaves' liberation, in 19th century Brazil. Eugenia Camara is the wild actress who crosses the Atlantic and finds herself torn between two loves, in a whirlwind of passion.
- What a telegram is, and the complex operation between the person who writes it, and the person who receives it: the machines and the professionals who act for the message to travel through the air, unseen.
- A lecturer speaks to his audience (the camera) against the several sorts of illiterate people, the worst being those who were lazy in their youth and refused to attend school. He exemplifies with the case of a boy - and ends his speech confessing that he had been that boy - until he learned later in life the joy - and material benefits - of learning to read and count.