Flora Thomas

Romain Faubert is a 39 year old, single, medical photographer... and a raging hypochondriac. His doctor and only friend Dr. Dimitri Zvenka thinks he knows the cure for Romain: dating! But with the arrival of freedom fighter Anton Miroslav, everyone might get more then they bargained for...

In 17 chapters, the film sketches the distress of a local agent after his day's work. Among others: body searches, the inner emptiness, Wednesday afternoons at the Fnac, the beloved and lost woman, coaching, the hot lines of internet service providers, respect in public space, the "7 words of Christ on the cross", the recycling of glass bottles, melancholy.

It's a film of highways, tourists on transhumance, concrete picnic tables, queues for toilets, warm melons and carwashes. It's the film of a man who wants to leave and a little boy who holds him back. It's the summer movie.

At the turn of the 1970s, with Portugal having been ruled for nearly half a century by an uncompromising dictatorship, a handful of officers decided to risk everything to liberate their country. Working in the shadows of the regime, they plotted a coup d'état unprecedented in history. This coup would soon give rise to a revolution: the Carnation Revolution, which overthrew the Salazar regime in a single day, April 25, 1974, without bloodshed.