The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middlemen and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold, that of a Chinese girl which Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and the other of a romance involving a young American woman on holidays in Havana.
Cast
Crew
Francisco Manso
Director, Producer
José Fanha
Writer
António Torrado
Writer
José Diogo Ferreira
Editor
Miguel Cardoso Faria
Editor
José António Loureiro
Director of Photography
Andreia Bertini
Colorist
Lola Sousa
Costume Design
Francisca Sobral
Assistant Makeup Artist
Vasco Pedroso
Sound Designer
Martim Crawford
Sound Editor
Luís Cília
Music