Rural community portraits in 1940s Portugal. Five protagonists untouched by modernity, depicting humble lives' resilience against suffering and repressed violence.

Adaptation of Miguel Torga's iconic tales. An intimate look at a rural community in the 1940s. Each chapter has its own protagonist, whose existence is untouched by modernity or the outside world. Five portraits of humble lives with enormous resistance to suffering - and a capacity for violence that sometimes proves impossible to repress.