Follows Hugo as he takes a gap year and returns to Porto to regain balance with his family, but he attends a concert by Luís Stockman, who plays a theme that Hugo has been writing in his head for years.

Dulcineia

Ausência

In 1496, King D. Manuel prohibited Judaism. 400 years later, Barros Basto, a Portuguese army captain converted to Judaism, and about twenty Jewish merchants founded the Jewish Community of Oporto, in the north of Portugal.

Sefarad

The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba and still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities to defend Chinese workers from slavery on sugar plantations.