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。

2069 年，也许是色情的一年——我们很快就会看到——但对于一位无冕之王来说却是决定性的一年。临终前，一首老歌让他想起了树木；一片燃烧的松树林，以及成为一名消防员将葡萄牙从火患中解救出来的愿望，也是另一个愿望的曙光。所以王子，阿尔弗雷多遇见了阿方索。不同出身、不同肤色的他们找到了彼此，互相帮助，虐语的词汇变得充满了欲望。但公众曝光及其期望阻碍了阿尔弗雷多对一个不可能的现实的另一种准备状态。

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.

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.