Diana Nicolau
Peace in the fictional Portuguese village Curral de Moinas is disturbed when Quim discovers he had a father who left him a huge inheritance with a bank, the prestigious BLOW-ME (Bank of Loans Over Worth-Market Exchange). So the two friends Quim and Zé head for Lisbon and start living a life of luxury, drinking bubbled wine and cars with more than 20 horse power engines. But money and the big city corrupt Quim... Will their friendship resist the challenge? Will Quim be able to manage BLOW-ME when he can't even sort out the change at a grocery store? Is the night life in Cascais ready for Zé's single eyebrow? Lisbon will never be the same...
In a village of the portuguese interior, David, a landfill worker in his thirties, has a hard decision to make: move in with his girlfriend to the capital, fighting for their increasingly weakened relation, or go on living with his mother, that couldn't handle the household expenses by herself.
Different attitudes towards love, loss, faith and searching for the sense of life, revealed by familiarity of four characters.
Miguel, a young writer studying cinema, releases his first best-seller at the age of 21. Maria, Psychology student, raised in a wealthy family. She is struggling for fame; Miguel is a humble human being. Their love story is compromised by their different goals in life. Miguel gives up on everything, and disappears for three years looking for the real meaning of life.
