A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by…

Portugal 1938. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of the “Lisboa,” an unaffiliated evening paper. There is a civil war in Spain and the fascists are in power…