Trama

This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother's death. Inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, he is translating 'Civil Disobedience' into Portuguese. The action is set between 1908 and 1910, between the assassination of the Portuguese King and Prince and the creation of the Portuguese Republic, an era where anarchists who fight against the monarchy often cross the path of burglars. On a country where corruption is set, the state representatives try to rob, arrest and kill innocents. The main character faces the tyranny of the state and tries to save the rest of his family. But this is a country where nothing changes.—Anonymous

A tale of revenge and struggle against a corrupt system are told through the spaghetti western genre set in Portugal in the first decade of the twentieth century. An emigrant from a rural Portuguese family living in Northern Finland receives notice of his brother's death and the theft of his sheep. He returns to seek revenge but finds himself continually hindered by the corrupt system he encounters. (The film is set just before the overthrow of the monarchy.) He is inspired in his quest by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, the nineteenth-century American writer who advocated individual civil disobedience to an unjust state. The film follows the spring transhumance in the Iberian peninsula to aid the telling of the story as the returned emigrant seeks those responsible for his brother's death and as such is beautifully shot.