
Álvaro and Maria do Carmo lived happily in Angola. He was a successful businessman and she was a mild mannered housewife. They have two children together, Ana and João, who were studying and living their teenage years in Luanda... Until the day the civil war broke out and everything fell apart. Amidst declarations of independence, a wave of violence breaks out and the established peace and order fades away. In July, 1975, the Mendonça family, along with over five hundred thousand people, leave their belongings behind and embark on an air convoy that would become the biggest exodus in the history of the Portuguese people to a homeland that most only knew from photos and dubbed it Metropolis. In Lisbon, Joaquim and Natália, Álvaro’s brother-in-law and sister, take the Mendonça family in their small apartment, where they will try to get their lives back in order. However, over that hot summer of 1975, the integration seemed to be far from easy.

as Maria do Carmo Mendonça

as Álvaro Mendonça

as Ana Maria Mendonça

as João Mendonça

as Natália Mendonça Cardoso

as Joaquim Cardoso

as Luísa Cardoso

as Pedro Cardoso

as Gonçalo Cunha Pereira

as Catarina Cunha Pereira

as Afonso Cunha Pereira

as Cidália Figueiredo

as Artur Figueiredo

as Filipe Perdigão

as Joana Moreira

as Daniel Moreira

as Jorge Moreira

as Teresa Castro

as Manuel Machado

as Sílvio Palma

as Fernando Esteves

as Odete Barbosa

as Paulo Barbosa

as Casimiro Marques

as Carlos Costa

as Camilo Rocha

as Victor Castro

as Jacinto Sousa

as Chico

as Lurdes


as Rita



as João

as Adelaide



as Helena

as Guilherme


as Bancário

as José Miguel

as Amparo



as Locução


as Funcionário

as Manuel





as Retornado



as Dr. Ávila





as Bancário




as Motorista


as Locução


as Locução



as Preciosa




as Popular (Uncredited)

as Passageiro Autocarro (Uncredited)