Dialogues with Leuco are short dialogues between divine or heroic figures from Greek-Roman mythology. Each dialogue deals with destiny, life and death, sacrifice, suffering, memory and desire, time and place.

Dialogues After the End

It's a summer weekend in a country house near Sintra, in Portugal. Fourteen-year-old Nicolau is spending a couple of days with his older brother Simão and his friends, all of them in their late twenties. Everyone is drawn to the beautiful and quiet Maria do Mar, but Nicolau will see his life the most deeply shaken by her. Between homework and tree-climbing, stories about a deceased philandering grandfather and the origins of the tortellini's shape, a friend in a costume nursing a broken heart and seduction games, Nicolau observes this group of young adults.

Maria do Mar

Unfolding across 19 chapters, "Diálogos Depois do Fim" is a TV adaptation of Pavese’s 1947 text "Dialoghi con Leucò", a series of conversations between classical Greek characters. For the theatrical version, 6 chapters were chosen to form a singular, chamber version of the full-length work.