Sofia Nicholson

Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.

A fiction within fiction, in which a television crew shoots a film about the poet and philosopher Anthero de Quental, from São Miguel, in a vision of his life and work staged and told through the fictionalized testimonies of those who knew him. The poet's life and death will be staged through the eyes of a group of traveling performers and the testimonies of some of the personalities who knew him best: Ramalho Ortigão, Eça de Queiroz, Oliveira Martins, Teófilo Braga, and his sister Ana Quental, whose sometimes contradictory points of view will attempt to unravel some of the enigmas that haunted Athero's tormented existence and the complete reasons that led him to the bench where, under the anchor of Hope, the poet described his life and committed suicide.

A story from a time when mystery made all the difference and where the most subtle sense of observation reigns supreme. It all begins with the death of the Swimmer, discovered at the edge of the cliff. But to this day, it is not known who fired the fatal shot, despite a thorough investigation by the Judicial Police, with special attention given to three girls—two sisters and a friend—who are there on vacation. But the doubt remains, and the inspector who conducted the investigation wonders, because the three seemingly naive teenagers leave the inspector with the conviction that, between their statements and their father's assertive maturity, it will be difficult to prove what his instinct tells him.

Presumed dead for nearly twenty years, Flor reappears in Azores with a revelation capable of shaking the past and reshaping the present: her disappearance was not an accident, as everyone believed. The reunion with those who thought they had lost her forever, including a former love, reopens deep wounds and sets in motion a dangerous quest for justice.

Cacau is an engaging saga of family secrets, clandestine loves and sacrifices, all sweetened by the irresistible taste of chocolate and the magic of cocoa plantations.