Joaquim José Escaleira

Emilia, a young woman part of a generation struggling with the consequences of a country's economic crises, desperately tries to hold on to her last hope for a prosperous future.

On January 22, 1961, a group of Portuguese and Spanish opposition movement members seized control of the Santa Maria, a Portuguese luxury cruise liner, an operation devised by Henrique Galvão to expose the Government of Portugal as a dictatorship.