Luís Miguel Jardim

A fictitious portrayal of poet João Gomes de Sousa’s life and Madeira island in the 1940’s.

In the mid-20th century, in the Madeira region, rock climbers brave dangerous mountains to build levadas and settle there, with courage and dreams of emigration, while facing an unjust colonial regime.

The demand of the people of Lombada da Ponta do Sol (Madeira Island) for the possession of the water, it’s levada and riot against the police repression that resulted in the death of the young Sãozinha in 1962.