Estrela d'Africa, a Creole neighborhood bordering Lisbon. A small child, a few days old, will survive several deaths. Tina, his young mother, takes him in his arms and opens the gas. Saved by his father, he sleeps in the street and drinks the milk of charity. Twice, he will be almost sold, by too much despair, too much love, for nothing. But Tina does not forget and her neighborhood sisters will want to avenge her.
—Pedro Costa