João Rodrigues

A little girl, Ana, reads herself to sleep. As she dozes off, the physical world starts melting into an alternate reality where the contents of a book rule over the laws of physics. Now, she has to escape being swallowed by the overwhelming accumulation of printed knowledge and find her own space in a world where nothing is what it seems.

One day, no date, in unknown locations, five subjects meet around a table. The cloth is green. The cards fly, roll the chips and the air is redolent of cigar smoke. Amid eyes crossed, mouth torn laughter and lies, one will learn that everything in life has consequences.

The film revives the name of a show staged in 1977, the same year the film was produced, which brought together an impressive cast of singers, poets, and composers in a moment of reflection and evocation of the revolutionary process. With music and lyrics by artists such as José Mário Branco, Zeca Afonso, Paulo de Carvalho, and Fernando Tordo, and performances by Carlos Paredes, Tonicha, Ary dos Santos, Adriano Correia de Oliveira, and the Mineiros de Aljustrel.

A soldier from special forces with a mission.