It is 1979. Four young ladies are hired to form a girl band. They can sing, they shine with their dancing, and they shock the country. They become a big hit. They are DOCE.

An adaptation of the short story with the same name by Portuguese writer Teófilo de Braga.

Accused of adultery, Ana Augusta Plácido and Camilo Castelo Branco were imprisoned for more than a year in the Porto Prison, she in June 1860, he in October of the same year, after an adventurous escape from justice through the lands of the North.

Haunted by failure and loss, an actress returns to her parched homeland, where her family’s fragile reunion unravels into a search for belonging and release.