Pedro Inês

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.

Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes. Tiago lives with his father, Raul, an old sailor haunted by historical defeats, and with his son, Manuel, a teenager fantasising of a solitary, but erotic, trip to the cosmos. All together, they take Karen through dreams, lost glories, and catastrophes to meet a fallen hero who disappeared many centuries ago on an island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.

This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.

Où Schéhérazade raconte comment la désolation a envahi les hommes : « Ô Roi bienheureux, on raconte qu’une juge affligée pleurera au lieu de dire sa sentence quand viendra la nuit des trois clairs de lunes. Un assassin en fuite errera plus de quarante jours durant dans les terres intérieures et se télétransportera pour échapper aux gendarmes, rêvant de putes et de perdrix. En se souvenant d’un olivier millénaire, une vache blessée dira ce qu’elle aura à dire et qui est bien triste ! Les habitants d’un immeuble de banlieue sauveront des perroquets et pisseront dans les ascenseurs, entourés de morts et de fantômes, mais aussi d’un chien qui… ». Et le jour venant à paraître, Schéhérazade se tait. - « Quelles histoires ! C’est sûr qu’en continuant ainsi, ma fille va finir décapitée ! » – pense le Grand Vizir, père de Schéhérazade, dans son palais de Bagdad.

A collection of six distinct stories drawn from a rich and extensive body of folklore that narrates Iberian mythology. This epic series weaves a tapestry of myths and tales while tackling fantasy, horror, humor, and drama.