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Conta-me como foi (transl. Tell me how it was) is a Portuguese television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.

Stories that make us reflect on how we live and on what is the value we give to life. It reinforces the importance of living in the present rather than in the past, an error in which Artur and Carolina fall as soon as they wake up on the same day after years of absence.

Après huit ans d'absence, Lemuel Gulliver refait surface et raconte ses aventures à la rencontre des petits hommes de Lilliput, des géants de Brobdingnag, des scientifiques de Laputa et des primitifs Yahoos.

Dans le contexte compliqué de la crise financière de 2008, Vanda tient un petit salon de coiffure à Lisbonne. Lorsqu’elle découvre que son mari l’escroque en plus de la tromper avec une de ses employées, elle décide de le quitter. Au bord de la faillite, elle se tourne vers sa banque qui refuse de l’aider. Seule, ruinée, avec deux enfants à charge, elle décide de braquer une banque à l’aide d’une perruque blonde, d’une paire de lunettes noires et d’un pistolet en plastique. Ce braquage est le premier d’une longue série qui attire l’attention des médias et font d’elle l’héroïne d’un peuple en souffrance.

Based on real facts, recalls the alliance between Portuguese, Timorese and Australians against a common enemy that did not hesitate to commit the greatest atrocities against the local populations and against all those who opposed him.