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!...
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.
