José Maria Vaz da Silva

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.

Helena is doctor in a big hospital. One night she hears a love song through her window and starts living for that song that she hears everynight.