A fascinating and vivid portrait of Camilo Castelo Branco, based on one of the most remarkable episodes of his life, when the writer and Ana Plácido were imprisoned in Porto's court jail as a result of the famous adultery trial that shook nineteenth-century Portuguese society.
A collection of extraordinary stories of people with bitter existences — forgers, parricides, infanticides, and even a king — that Camilo heard and recounted there, with his inexhaustible creative genius, in the book Memórias do Cárcere (Memories of Prison), which the film adapts.
