Luís Pinhão

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

Current adaptation. Farce about the tribulations of two families, their respective maids, and also a manicurist, a prosecutor, and a police officer, revolving around the unbridled pursuit of romantic adventures. At issue are the scandals of a crazy woman, which lead the neighbors to complain to the police and force the landlord's representative to take eviction action against her for having a parrot that shouts "Hey, guard!" and a monkey (Geribau) that torments everyone with its mischief...

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Maria de Noronha, at 13 years old, suffers from high fevers and violent hemoptysis caused by a ruthless tuberculosis. To alleviate the pain, she gathers poppies from her garden and, at night, places them on her bed pillows. But the poppies have a devastating effect. Her deep sleep is invaded by ghosts and hallucinations: the luxury and decadence of the Portuguese 16th century. A broken nation, occupied by strangers.

Trafaria changes his business to Angola, in search of a more profitable occupation, by shaming the pioneers. There he engages in the obscure social and political environment, from which emerge some characteristic figures - administrators, their wives and secretaries, Arabs, police officers, priests and mercenaries...