Eva and her sisters live humbly in Lisbon, unaware that their lives are about to take an unexpected turn. When Gaspar, a wealthy businessman based in Angola, suddenly dies, he leaves his entire fortune to the three young women, who overnight become the owners of a great fortune and an entire estate in Angola. However, not everything will be a bed of roses: they will have to confront Talu, a young Angolan engineer who was excluded from Gaspar’s inheritance in favor of Eva. And despite being in opposite sides, neither Talu nor Eva will be able to resist the strong attraction they feel for each other. Among the breathtaking landscapes of Angola and the modern business world of Portugal, the young lovers will find themselves at the center of a web of antagonistic interests, in the dispute over Gaspar’s inheritance.

利塔出生于法国，他们一家都是来自葡萄牙的移民，和父母生活在这个城市里，利塔的母亲在一家面包店工作，面对着繁重的工作以及背井离乡的紧迫感，让她越来越禁受不住生活的压力，开始力不从心。1979年的时候，利塔已经8岁了，她在她不识字的母亲眼里，利塔几乎是一个成年人了，在她酗酒的父亲眼里，她仍然只是一个天真可爱的小女孩，日子便这么有一天没一天的过着，有一天，利塔忽然得知了父亲的一个秘密：他早已得了重病。但利塔以为父亲只是想找借口同别的女人离开这个家，所以拒绝相信他，反而认为他在向她隐瞒别的事情，直到父亲病重身亡，利塔才意识到，父亲真的走了，而她以后便要和母亲相依为命在这个孤独的城市里。

At the end of the nineteenth century, two inexperienced Portuguese colonizers, with a vague intention of civilizing the colonies, disembark in a remote part of the Congo River in order to coordinate a trading post. As time goes by, they become increasingly demoralized by their inability to profit from the ivory trade. A mutual feeling of distrust and misunderstadings with the locals isolate them at the heart of the tropical jungle. Faced with each other, they begin a journey towards the abyss.

2017 film directed by Marcelo Gomes

A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise they’re getting lonely. Hellish summer ends and we’re on a little fishing village, river-side, in Lisbon’s south bank: people make life-changing decisions.

2004 film by Christophe Honoré

A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.

television series

2022 film directed by Céline Devaux