Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her father’s house, the daughter discovers the letter. It is the beginning of a new encounter.
2069, ano talvez erótico - logo veremos - mas fatídico para um rei sem coroa. No seu leito de morte, uma cano antiga fá-lo rememorar árvores; um pinhal ardido e o tempo em que o desejo de ser bombeiro para libertar Portugal do flagelo dos incêndios, foi também o despontar de outro desejo. Ento príncipe, Alfredo encontra Afonso. Com diferentes origens e diferentes cores de pe...
A reporter and a camera operator from a Macau TV channel embark on a journey to south of China.
十四岁的约翰从小就生长在修道院中，没有亲人，亦没有过去。一天，一位神秘的妇人安吉拉（玛利亚·若奥·巴斯托斯 Maria Joo Bastos 饰）找到了约翰，声称自己是他的亲生母亲，并且向约翰讲述了她曾经的故事。
安吉拉是侯爵的女儿，她和伯爵之子席尔瓦（何塞·阿方索·皮蒙特尔 José Afonso Pimentel 饰）相爱，遭到了父亲的强烈反对。然而，叛逆的安吉拉并没有屈服，她腹中怀着席尔瓦的孩子，决定与其私奔。暴怒的侯爵派出杀手刺杀席尔瓦，甚至连安吉拉腹中的胎儿也不放过，幸运的是，安吉拉得到了一位神父和令一位神秘人的帮助，约翰才得以长大。成年之后，约翰来到巴黎，遇见了一位贵妇，他答应帮助贵妇找到杀死她哥哥的凶手，让约翰没有想到的是，这名凶手竟然正是当初帮助过他和他母亲的神秘人。
1971年，葡萄牙殖民战争仍未结束，被派往南非安哥拉的青年医师只能通过书信与怀孕的妻子诉说前线的见闻，他在异乡所见的自然、人文全部都化作信中既温暖又饱含思念之情的文字。但当战事越演越烈，人性最丑陋的一面终于再也藏不住了，书信里的言语也变得困惑难解...电影用壮阔绝美的黑白影像，谱写了一曲残酷的战争寓言。
