Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.
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Father Dinis (Adriano Luz) is a man of faith who often finds himself trading one personality for another as he serves different people in different ways. When João (João Luís Arrais), a teenager born out of wedlock and raised in an orphanage, begins asking questions about his parents, Dinis arranges for him to be introduced to his mother, who turns out to be a wealthy countess, Angela (Maria João Bastos). While Angela is married, her jealous and short-tempered husband is not the father, and when word spreads that she is carrying another man's child, the Marquis of Montezelos (Rui Morisson) arranges for the biological father to be killed and hires an outlaw named the Knife-Eater (Ricardo Pereira) to murder the child after it is born. However, the plan goes awry, and in time the Knife-Eater redeems himself; meanwhile, the unexpected connections between the characters evolve with the passage of time.
Portuguese filmmaker Raoul Ruiz directs this epic historical drama based on the book by 19th century romantic novelist Camilo Castelo Branco. The film weaves a labyrinth of interconnected stories around the history and identity of orphan Pedro da Silva (Joao Arrais) and Padre Dinis (Adriano Luz), the priest who becomes his protector. When Pedro is visited during a feverish sleep by a woman claiming to be his mother (Maria Joao Bastos), a multi-layered journey into his past and the lives and loves of his predecessors begins to unfold layer by layer.
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