Marked by the death of a friend at the hands of PIDE, Teotónio, Rodolfo and Juliana are three students thrown onto the streets of Lisbon during the freedom celebration. In the last stronghold of the regime, the headquarters of the political police, Teotónio finds himself confronted with his greatest fear: the person responsible for the death of his friend Tomé.
César is a singer-songwriter exiled in Paris and one of the most celebrated amongst the opposition to the regime. The echoes of the failed Caldas Uprising make him decide to take a dangerous journey back home. He arrives on the eve of April 25th and immediately falls in love with São José, a revolutionary, leaving behind Maria, his girlfriend with whom he comes from Paris.
Catarina is a 33-year-old woman, pregnant at the end of her pregnancy, and an active member of a revolutionary party. Set aside from the party's actions in recent months, due to her advanced pregnancy, Catarina hides this fact from Samuel, her imprisoned husband, for fear of not seeing him again.
Positioned as snipers at the beginning of the siege of the Carmo Barracks, a white soldier and another black soldier are surprised by an old woman who, from the second floor balcony, invites “the boy to come up here, I have tea and cakes”. In the fight for freedom, there are still some who are freer than others.
Half a century of dictatorship came to an end on April 25, 1974. The main protagonists, and the unfolding of events, are duly and meticulously portrayed. But hundreds, perhaps thousands of episodes of tension and fear, courage and adrenaline, pain and loss, fury and dreams were experienced by anonymous citizens during the intense hours that changed the country.