lt s 1975 and when the winds of change are blowing over post-revolutionary PortugaI. Al Berto returns to his smalI viIlage after several years in Brussels, where he was trained as a painter. SettIing ilIegally in a mansion that had been expropriated from his famiIy during the revolution, young Al Berto begins to hang out with Iocals who share his interest in the arts and dream of a different Iife. Among them is the handsome João Maria -who wiII soon become Al Berto s Iover. Soon Al Berto begins a counter-cuIture revolution that bewitches the towns youngsters but threatens the ideals of the most conservative locaIs.