Julio, who had just come of age, left the countryside and came to Lisbon to make a living. Unfortunately, it was hard to find a job, so he could only [Expand All]
Julio, who had just come of age, left the countryside and came to Lisbon to make a living. Unfortunately, it was hard to find a job, so he could only obediently learn to be a shoemaker from his uncle. After falling in love with Ilda, a young butler with a similar fate, I gained a deeper understanding of the cruel proposition of survival and life... The pioneer of the Portuguese new cinema raised the most sincere and challenging bold questions about the economy and society of that time. Some comments suggest that the film wave that began from this indirectly triggered the Carnation Revolution that ended the dictatorship.[Collapse]