Júlia Palha

When the hotel where workaholic Catarina works is sold, she needs to show her skills to manage unprofessional staff, look after eccentric guests and deal with ghosts from the past, which are brought back by the visit of an unexpected friend.

A story of love and deception, set against a backdrop marked by the actions of the political police under the Salazar dictatorship, censorship, persecution, and imprisonment, and the student revolt of the early 1960s.

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Seville, 1968. Honorio, Rafa, and Vicente are about to turn 20 and dream of escaping their routine. After watching a NO-DO newsreel about the tourism boom on the Costa del Sol and its air of freedom, they decide to travel to Torremolinos to change their lives and, above all, lose their virginity with Swedish women. Armed with the necessary excuses and a loaded Seat 600, they embark on a journey that will challenge everything they thought they knew until then.

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a petty chauffeur, 26 years younger.

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.

Xavier, a village boy, falls for Laura, neighbor's granddaughter who visits her grandfather annually. Despite flirting at summer dances, Xavier believes he has no chance with her.

Wayward boy punishes his mother’s lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes whoring in child’s guise.

Set in the romantic and multicultural city of Lisbon, the love story between a shy Brazilian man and a fearless Portuguese young woman is haunted by secrets from his past.

The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime.