1961.
The edition and publication of "Canticle of the Country Emerso", by Natalia Correia by the writer and editor Luiz Pacheco. The launch takes place in the first neighborhood of Lisbon, the Bairro da Alegria. This launch is an aesthetic and political gesture at a time when the dictatorial regime that governs the country hardens positions. The visit of the young Nordic girl, Ebba Merete Seidenfaden, nicknamed SNU - in Danish "smart" - to the country of her husband, Vasco Abecassis. Portugal, a peripheral country, with a colonial war that has just hatched, and living under a dictatorial regime, makes it redouble the attention with which it listens and forms opinions. For this, the observation that makes the environment of the Abecassis, from the maids (the son of a cook goes to the war in Angola) to the social circle, diversified but elitist. Mariano, a young man without the studies completed, protected by a Padrinho who works in Censura, is a candidate, receives instruction and enters the pictures of Pide. Prison of the journalist and professor José Manuel Tengarrinha. Maria Armanda Falcão, his wife, watches the debauchery of his house by Pide.
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