João Marcos Fuentes

Blum and Elza conduct Scientific and anthropological researches in a desert island, where they use as subjects a old fisherman, the house keeper and a prostitute from the country. But the affection grows between the three of them, and this feelings are capable of compromising the whole research.

On the eve of the Republic, the clash between the monarchist Aristarco and his son Jorge, a defender of the republican cause, enlivened the Ateneu College and sparked passions and persecutions.