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Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.
Casa Na Comporta is one of four films commissioned to different directors for the Portuguese architecture national exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the showcase of “ENSAIO SOBRE A CEGUEIRA” (essay on blindness), written by José Saramago.
The film tells the story of the struggle of the Tabuaço theater group, led by Dr. Matias, a Brazilian actor/dentist, against a politician who wants to tear down the village's old theater. With the arrival of outsider Maria Duarte, the group gains new momentum to try to stop the destruction of the building, with the support of the population.
Lúcia is raped by her husband and presses charges against him. She fights the Portuguese legal system along with the Prosecutor's Assistant, Maria João Correia, to force her husband, the son of the State's Vice Attorney, into Court. The case takes place in closed session where Lúcia tries to find justice in a predominantly male world.
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.