Young writer sells a soap-opera script to a TV network and manages to place his girlfriend in an important role.

Portuguese fictional feature film directed by Henrique Campos.

Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois trappings of modern life.