A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the Estado Novo, the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar.[2] The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.

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An essay on the military revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974, based on first-person retrospective of events the coup leader, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, until the end to the revolutionaries leadership in November 25, 1975; the memories have a counterpoint analysis in excerpts of texts read by the author, the philosopher Eduardo Lourenço, and end in a brief dialogue between the two. The essay is interspersed with reflections and fictional conversations with friends by Robert Kramer, playing himself as an American journalist in Lisbon in 1981, and is followed by the historic speeches of two military leaders, on July 13, 1974.

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