Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one's life, depending on decisions that are made early on.

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

A história do filme é tirada de dois romances portugueses tradicionais: “A donzela que vai à guerra” (Séc. XV?), de origem judaica peninsular e de uma novela, “A mão do finado”, transmitida pela tradição oral que faz parte do ciclo do Barba Azul.

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.