What if the danses macabres, beyond their grimacing folklore, staged the death of the Middle Ages and the invention, in the middle of the 15th century, of modern Europe?

When Lord von Ketten sets off to battle, staying away for eleven long years, his newly married wife carves out a life for herself—reading, singing, dancing, swimming, and riding in the forest.

The film was inspired by the letters exchanged between two leading Portuguese poets, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, during the exile of the latter (1957-78)...

Roberto is a handsome, wealthy man, arrogant and easily bored. Yet one evening his attention is attracted by a prostitute who turns out to be a missing noblewoman. She tells her story: a marriage without passion, an affair, a shocking murder and ultimate revenge.

Rita Azevedo Gomes sets Manoel de Oliveira and João Bénard da Costa loose at the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon.

A film about the mysteries of memory, about the strength of its expression through the spoken word. On the strength of the word as cinematic image.