Casts & Crew
Pedro Alpiarça
Mina Andala
Carlos Areia
Cristina Areia
Carolina Castelinho
Ricardo Castro
Joana Figueira
Natalina José
Afonso Lopes
Fernando Lupach
António Machado
Alberto Magassela
Octávio Matos
Rodrigo Menezes
Diogo Morgado
Cristina Oliveira
Luisa Ortigoso
Paulo Patrício
Mara Prates
Quimbé
Núria Real
Mané Ribeiro
Paulo Rocha
Mário Spencer
Also Directed by Fernando Ávila
Neves and his wife Celia are the owners and managers of the 'Little Star Pension', a familiar hotel that caters to bourgeois family and would-be actors, instead of the ill-reputed 'Good-Night Pension' (just across the narrow street), where gigolos, whores, and criminals of all sorts may go for a quick encounter. However, not all is well among the ten residents of 'Little Star Pension': each dialogue line from every hotel guest is evidence that he, or her, has a reason (actually, more than one) to hate Neves - to the point of wishing him dead. Carelessness (or devious intention) by one party will provide the means; another, will create the propitious moment; yet another, and then the rest of them will create the festive New Year's Eve occasion - to do with Neves forever! Obviously, only the famous world private-eye Hércules Pirôt can solve the crime... for which he is called by phone, even before the deed is done.
New years special aired on RTP on 1991