Luís Pinhão

1920'li yılların ortaları, Arjantin... Rosa, oldukça zengin bir adamın kızıdır; ancak aşığı olan Esteban fakir bir oğlandır. Rosa'yla evlenebilmesi için onun da zengin olması gerekmektedir. Bu nedenle Esteban altın madenlerinde çalışmaya başlar. Ancak Rosa'nın başına gelecek olan kötü bir olay, herkesin hayatını kökünden değiştirecektir.

Current adaptation. Farce about the tribulations of two families, their respective maids, and also a manicurist, a prosecutor, and a police officer, revolving around the unbridled pursuit of romantic adventures. At issue are the scandals of a crazy woman, which lead the neighbors to complain to the police and force the landlord's representative to take eviction action against her for having a parrot that shouts "Hey, guard!" and a monkey (Geribau) that torments everyone with its mischief...

Trafaria changes his business to Angola, in search of a more profitable occupation, by shaming the pioneers. There he engages in the obscure social and political environment, from which emerge some characteristic figures - administrators, their wives and secretaries, Arabs, police officers, priests and mercenaries...

Maria de Noronha, at 13 years old, suffers from high fevers and violent hemoptysis caused by a ruthless tuberculosis. To alleviate the pain, she gathers poppies from her garden and, at night, places them on her bed pillows. But the poppies have a devastating effect. Her deep sleep is invaded by ghosts and hallucinations: the luxury and decadence of the Portuguese 16th century. A broken nation, occupied by strangers.

The plan to build a large shipping canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea had been around for a long time. But it took a man with the drive of Ferdinand de Lesseps to make it happen.