Popular in the riverside area of Porto, Micas raised her daughter, Madalena, at the cost of sacrifice, as her father emigrated to Brazil. With a happy voice, Madalena works on unloading the coal, seeing her loves thwarted by her humble condition. Barata, another typical figure who makes a living from expedients, helps Madalena's father - meanwhile returned, to "register" her - in a kidnapping plan capable of facilitating her reconciliation with Micas, who is reluctant... Things get complicated, but happiness ends up triumphing.

Popular in the riverside area of Porto, Micas raised her daughter, Madalena, at the cost of sacrifice, as her father emigrated to Brazil. With a happy voice, Madalena works on unloading the coal, seeing her loves thwarted by her humble condition. Barata, another typical figure who makes a living from expedients, helps Madalena's father - meanwhile returned, to "register" her - in a kidnapping plan capable of facilitating her reconciliation with Micas, who is reluctant... Things get complicated, but happiness ends up triumphing.

Eduardo, the son of the wealthy farmer Jerónimo de Vinhais, falls in love and departs for Lisbon with the fado singer Maria da Graça, after studying abroad, and refusing his father "too" to be a taurenic knight.

Eduardo, the son of the wealthy farmer Jerónimo de Vinhais, falls in love and departs for Lisbon with the fado singer Maria da Graça, after studying abroad, and refusing his father "too" to be a taurenic knight.

Luisa and Manuel begin the existence of married, having only their dream and hope. He judges himself a Tarzan in the jungle of life, able to face all the threats, next to his companion.

Luisa and Manuel begin the existence of married, having only their dream and hope. He judges himself a Tarzan in the jungle of life, able to face all the threats, next to his companion.

After two years of fighting in Angola, Ilídio returns to the village where Mary, whom he considered his bride, is indifferent. She is convinced that she has a religious calling.

António, a factory worker of immense musical talent, is discovered by a business man who launches him as a singer. Nevertheless, this changes the man's life for better and for worst.

A typesetter is an amateur stage director, and his niece and an employee are stage actors. When they have an opportunity to go professional, differences arise between the two men. Things get worse when the employee starts seeing the girl even when there is no need for rehearsals - and the uncle opposes their relationship.

The vicissitudes of a bourgeois family and the conflicts emerged between brothers - Dr. Manuel Bernardo, wise and weighted, and Zecas, libertine and Capricious - who ignore his kinship. Two girls mark the sentimental vector: one defends the danger that threatens the threat, the other does not know how to react and is the victim of her ingenuity, a dream of restless youth ...