After having spent all their lives apart, two childhood friends, widowed and elderly, meet again in the village where they grew up in. While trying to solve past disagreements, they deal with the decision their relatives made to put them in a nursing home. Knowing they are at the end of their lives, the two friends try hard to keep their old promise to stay together forever.

In a small Portuguese village in the late 60's, a young priest takes the people's side for fighting for better living and working conditions. Following complaints from the industrialist who employs most of the village, the bishop decides to move the priest to another parish. When the people learn of his forced departure, they rebel and unite to prevent the priest from leaving the village.

When her husband dies, Dora Rosário, a woman trapped in the dark years of the Estado Novo, starts to live only for her daughter Lisa and for the memory of the deceased that accompanies her every day. However, when she discovers that her husband was not who she thought he was, Dora questions her whole past and ventures out in search of a new life. But she soon discovers that mourning won't be as easy as she wants to believe.

On the day Portugal and Angola face each other in the 2006 World Cup, Mozambicans, Angolans, Guineans, São Tomense, Cape Verdeans and Portuguese get together in a feast of beer, fried fish and expectations. The ones who are the most nervous are JJ and Mina, who take advantage of the game to announce to her family that, although they are not even engaged, they are going to be parents. Everything can go wrong, so JJ takes along a sponsor with a belly full of diamonds.

On one side, a bunch of crooks. On the other, two sisters. Nothing unites them except an idea: to relieve the bank account of an old man, who happens to be the sisters' father. The crooks devise a plan to gain his trust and swindle him. The sisters make plans for the last years of their father's life without neglecting the small detail of the inheritance. Each one in their own way, they all dream of the possibilities that the old man's money could bring them. But this one will not be easy prey.

Oliveira do Hospital, 1995. A scriptwriter looking for inspiration, a failed actor trying to get back into the limelight, and a suitcase of money hidden in a chimney. These are the ingredients of Serpentina, whose characters, while trying to make a film, find themselves in a gangster film from which they do not know how to get out.