A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write

A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.

The story of the CEO of a recently privatized company.

Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay the rent. that's when they meet Carla (Maria João Bastos) who might change their lives forever.

Portugal 1997. A nuclear accident left the the country without energy and divided between zones, some of them interdicted because of the contamination. The economic crisis is dramatic and unemployment is almost total.