Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar's rector accept it, and António accepts it - if not for piety, for obeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery and into the prison-like system of a seminar, doubts and anguishes mount within him.
as António
as Dona Estefânia
as Reitor
as Padre Tomás
as Padre Martins
as Padre Lino
as Capitão
as Joana
as António's Mother
as Padre Alves
as Mariazinha
as Tio Gorra
as Padre
as Criado
as Padre Pita
