Manuel Cintra

The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when he is run over in a perhaps enigmatic way.

Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When another couple agrees to share a table, they spark a conversation on the city’s history, unfolding the tales of King Afonso III, who betrays his wife, and of a Moorish woman, who betrays her father.

Don Salluste est condamné à l’exil par la reine pour une affaire de mœurs. Décidé à se venger, il fait entrer à la cour un de ses valets, Ruy Blas, pour qu'il séduise la reine...

A la suite d'une union secrète entre Inès et le duc de Nevers, ce dernier est assassiné lâchement par un mystérieux inconnu. Lagardère, fidèle serviteur et admiratif de son maître, promet de le venger et d'élever sa fille Aurore. Pour ce, le duc lui donne avant de mourir le secret de sa mystérieuse botte : la botte de Nevers. Pendant dix-sept ans, il vengera le duc en se faisant passer pour son fantôme, et tuant sans relâche les hommes qui ont participé à son meurtre. Mais il ignore toujours le nom du commanditaire qu'il a blessé à la main lors du combat..

Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, daughter of the founder of the newspaper "Diário de Notícias", married to Alfredo da Cunha, then director of this newspaper, and mother of José, who is 20. This educated, cultured woman, falls in love with the chauffeur, who is youger than her and from a different social background. This passion leads to confronting the established order of things and the standards of social behaviour of a wife and mother. She may at the same time be heroine and victim of her own courage in deciding to make a final break from the whole family status and run off with the chauffeur. When his wife runs off with the chauffeur, Alfredo da Cunha with the aid of some of the eminent doctors of the day, has her declared irresponsible and incapable of administering her assets, and on this pretext he has her inprisoned in a mental hospital.

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.