It’s 1942, and Portugal languishes under dictatorship and WWII rages just beyond its borders. Secrets, half-truths, and mistrust prevail in the state security office of chief inspector Varga, who makes professional privilege a cover for his unprofessional interest in a boldly carnal refugee and her alleged brother. Director/writer Saboga (screenwriter for Raúl Ruiz’s MYSTERIES OF LISBON) saturates the dark world of this predatory tale with steamy eroticism and paranoia, starting with the incestuous desires of his bi-curious adolescent daughter and including the family maid.

TV miniseries

2018 film directed by Lúcia Murat

Nuno is the son of divorced parents. He lives a nomadic existence with his father: he lost all his friends and never stays long enough anywhere to make new friends. Now Nuno has become a drug addict, he’s in hospital, in a coma struggling between life and death. His father and his father’s sister remain by his bedside. The three separately evoke requests from the past and other characters they meet also complement their current life experiences and memories. Based on the novel by António Lobo Antunes.

两个年轻女子在一系列巧合后建立了牢固的友谊。阴谋和谋杀最终切断了他们的联系。

里斯本的南邊，一條長河橫越，十三歲的拉法和母親、姊姊與姪子住在狹小的公寓裡。母親徹夜未歸，清晨拉法決定到里斯本警局找她。從白天到夜深，拉法似乎相當熟悉這齣戲碼，在街上閑晃或被警察審問，然而母親與老是害她惹上麻煩的男友卻從未現身。無論如何，作為兒子或一個家的男人，他都要帶她離開。