João Nobre

Jorge, boxeur fauché et sans emploi, voit sa femme le quitter pour repartir au Brésil avec leur fils. Le Portugal étant au bord de la faillite, les sociétés de recouvrement prospèrent. Pour sauver sa famille, Jorge décide alors d'offrir ses services à l'une d'entre elles, malgré leurs méthodes d'intimidation peu scrupuleuses...

Jorge, a former marine who arrived from Angola, is employed as a butler in a house in S. Pedro do Estoril, where the brothers Teresa and Carlos live, who have many friends "ié-ié", among whom stands out Manela, for whom Jorge ends up falling in love... after all, Jorge is the real owner of the residence, and he decided to take a closer look at the lives of his cousins, who settled there, during his absence overseas.

The characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct moral of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana, and the dissidents, sensibility, tenderness, rituals and landscape involvement of the Minho.

João and Jaime work as taxi drivers for the same company. But, once the company's vault is robbed by Raul, the manager's son, João is the one to blame.