Miguel Monteiro

A picaresque chronicle of Laura, a peasant maid, and Sebastian, the young orphan in her charge, against a backdrop of overflowing passion and revolutionary intrigue in Europe at the twilight of the 18th century.

Years after her son's disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after an abduction that the police cannot solve while she is moving in a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child whom she believes is still alive.

TWO stories of revenge set against historic catastrophes -- Great Lisbon Earthquake(1755) and Great East-Japan Earthquake(2011), explore the human condition as they encounter similar tragedies and deja-vus.