艾玛（雷奥勒·希尔维拉 Leonor Silveira 饰）在很小的时候就失去了母亲，之后便和父亲过着相依为命的生活。艾玛的姑妈奥古斯塔（劳拉·索维拉尔 Laura Soveral 饰）是一名非常虔诚的天主教徒，给艾玛的世界观带来了很大的影响。
艾玛从小就拥有能够令人忍不住想要多看两眼的美貌，唯一的缺憾就是她的腿上有些许的残疾。她从小就沉迷于各种各样的爱情小说中，对浪漫充满了渴望，这让奥古斯塔感到非常的担心。某日，艾玛遇见了名为卡罗尔（路易斯·米格尔·辛特拉 Luís Miguel Cintra 饰）医生，卡罗尔对艾玛一见钟情。在卡罗尔的原配妻子去世之后，艾玛成为了他的下一任新娘。

The tragedy and comedy in Carlo's life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.

在Botelho的<想做美国总统的女人>(2003)和这部里选了很久,最后决定选这部成名作,其实两部都很幽默,他是葡萄牙当代最好的超现实喜剧片导演.
Maybe the best Portuguese movie ever done, "Tráfico" is a sad, sad portrait of the modern Portugal and (if there is such a thing, since Portuguese mentality seems have not changed in 800 years), in spite of its sarcastic, even surrealistic mood, a very dark and dejected film, at least for Portuguese viewers. Very funny too (yet,with a kind of humor whose nuances risks sometimes to escape unnoticed by foreign ears), with some of the more sharp-witted sayings and situations I ever saw in cinema. The dialogue with the Portuguese culture it's ever present, making of it a movie that just can be fully understood by an autochton. Notwithstanding - don't miss this masterpiece.

2009 film by João Mário Grilo