Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and harsh heat of the Alentejo. With the connivance of Lianor, the troupe enters the palace of Don Gonzalo an old aristocrat. The gentleman is obsessed by visions of great past deeds in a universe of ghosts. This was the first example of militant cinema in Portugal after the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship, exploring the world after the Carnation Revolution and its contradictions.

Mishaps abound when two millennials abroad in Macau try to get rid of an old washing machine.

遠赴殖民地多年後歸來的阿德利諾終於回國，孰知迎接他的是找不著工作、討不到老婆、親友四散打工的家鄉。拖著工傷的身體，似乎連最簡單樸實的生活都顯得奢侈，阿德利諾該如何重新開始？雷斯學派宗師安東尼奧雷斯參與編劇、葡萄牙新電影繆思伊莎貝魯契主演，描繪後薩拉查獨裁統治時期葡萄牙鄉村的勞動場景與日常生活，並隱晦指涉殖民戰爭之惡果。