About love and death, between a man and a woman.

While three brothers, heirs of a hotel owner, want to restore the glamour of yesteryear to the establishment, a Health Department official tries to find a way to close it down for good.

A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary, Adam, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.

In Lisbon, French author Paul meets various people from his past who uncover forgotten memories.