Mariana, a thirty-year-old woman, is hidden in a coats room, during a Christmas party. A distant cousin discovers her and they establish a relationship where some painful truths about life and their family history come to surface for the first time.

How happy and proud they are those two ladies back in Oporto! Thanks to them, their bright nephew can study medicine in Lisbon and may already have become a doctor. Little do they know, not only Vasco wastes all his time drinking, dancing and picking up girls but he has just failed his final exam! And in that same day, he receives an email from the two aunts announcing their visit to Lisbon! Will he be able to make them believe he is such a good student as they think?

Fiction feature film about the Douro, its people, stories and suffering. The relations between the lords of the land and those who work it.