The Stone and The Plot

Forty years ago, Sério Fernandes was a television advertising director and owner of one of the most successful advertising companies in Portugal. That's when he decides to leave everything to focus on his own movies. Nowadays, Sério Fernandes is known as the master of Oporto’s school.

Roberto, a retired and disappointed journalist, leaves his work in a farm and goes back to his hometown, Braga, which he thinks will be his last hiding place. However, in returning, he feels a strong energy in the city and between journeys to the past and an intense night life, a new chapter arises.

Tourém is a frontier village on the border between Portugal and Spain. It has a reputation as a “smugglers’ nest”, with many villagers involved in the business, in the past. They smuggled goods due to shortages at the time. They risked their lives for a living.

Leni and Mandemba are two fishermen from the island of Bubaque, in Guinea-Bissau. The filmmaker follows them for a whole day as they prepare their tools, gather bait and go fishing. A filmmaker and two fishermen who shape and form a landscape and a choreography of gestures on an afternoon of fishing.

A short film by Mário Fernardes.