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After her family is accused of regicide, Leonor de Almeida Portugal is imprisoned in a convent for eighteen years. Incarcerated, she becomes "Alcipe" through poetry and finds love and freedom in Carlos Augusto. But her life path is marked by the earthquake of 1755 and since that day, the earth has never stopped shaking. From the end of her luxurious life in Vienna, to her flight from France, to the loss of two children, Alcipe never gives up and always rises from the ashes.

On April 25, 1974, a man walked alone in Largo do Carmo. He knocked on the GNR military barracks door and entered, unarmed and without any escorts. Inside, the Government’s chief, Marcelo Caetano, waited, surrounded by the military and the people. The man who stared at him that afternoon and demanded surrender, guaranteeing his safety, had just led Santarém’s Artillery 1 regiment in taking the capital. Without firing a single shot, he managed to overthrow a regime that was over 48 years old. That was the last step to take and he took it, without hesitation, becoming the unavoidable figure of the day that marked the beginning of democracy in Portugal.

Aníbal Augusto Milhais The most important desire to live in peace was persecuted by the name of Portugal. The story comes from the memories of war, those stirred up during a hunt. In this quest, Millions carrying out their struggle for survival 20 years before in World War I free. At dawn on April 9, 1918, dozens of German divisions burst through the sector defended by the second division of the Portuguese Expedited Corps (CEP). In a few hours, in what would be known as the Battle of La Lys, more than 7,500 men were lost. Milhais refuses the orders of Captain and is alone, before a regiment of German soldiers, to save its affiliations. Milhais faces his biggest challenge. He is the only one of his friends.