Luís Cerqueira

On the verge of being expelled from his home for not paying his debts, a government employee is mistaken for an inspector and decides to use that as an advantage.

A peaceful head of the family wins the lottery, changing the family's life.

The priest of Villablanca is determined to build a housing for the poor. However, do not have enough money and will have to earn singing in festivals. They are all obstacles to get what you want, but his faith makes him see the problems as easy to overcome.

João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. For the kids, he is like a king, Dom Roberto = puppet). When he meets Maria, an equally poor girl, he fancies to change her life, and get her a house, maybe marrying, and being happy together.Life does not exactly have a happy ending, like he managed with his puppets 5-minute plays...