Natural do Fundão, Matias decide um dia voltar a Lisboa, para revisitar amigos e lugares que não vê, desde que cumpriu o serviço militar. Vem à boleia, com destino à Calçada de Carriche. Num primeiro giro de reconhecimento, estranha a hostilidade latente no bairro, percorrido por carros de patrulha e jovens marginais, que o interpelam agressivamente, nos mesmos sítios onde antes reinava a camaradagem...

Since 1980 German institutions send teens to the south of Portugal under experimental projects of social rehabilitation. That's how Katrin comes to Alentejo. She will establish a unique relationship with the surrounding environment, a situation exacerbated by the harshness of the landscape and the emptiness of a socially desertified region. Katrin, with Julia and Pedro, will build a refuge in a no-man's-land...

1987 film by Jorge Silva Melo

1995 Portuguese drama film directed by Pedro Costa

Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don't seem to remember their mother, and are very much attached to their father, despite his temper, and his frequent absences from home. One day, the father leaves for good, and Vicente and Nino swear to cover it up. It's their secret. Clara, the primary school assistant, is fascinatingly beautiful, and secretive, and (may be) she knows it aswel. There are other secrets, though: the origin of the money that appears at Vicente's house; the relationship between Vicente's well-to-do uncle and his girlfriend; the relationship between the four people who once played the cards together, and now can't stand each other