
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.

as Eça de Queirós

as Ramalho Ortigão

as Countess Luísa Valadas

as Count Jorge Valadas

as Vasco

as Carmen Puebla

as Nicázio Puebla

as Rytmel

as Eduardo Coelho

as Countess (voice)

as Batalha Reis

as Cocheiro

as Dr. Sidónio

as Conde Abranhos

as Manuel de Arriaga

as Priest


as D. Ana

as Dancer

as D. Carla

as Antero de Quental

as (Uncredited)