导演奥利维哈上溯四百年，发现耶稣会教士维瓦拉，找到互通的心灵和发人深省的声音。
维瓦拉在葡萄牙出生，巴西长大，但思想开明，经常为印第安人发声控诉奴隶制与殖民者的不是。其德才与辩才誉满宗教界，却不为祖国所容飘泊终生。他传世的讲道内容，连非宗教读者亦深受打动。导演以其百年炉火，把传奇提炼得不带多余杂质。

2006 film by Manoel de Oliveira

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.