In the 1950s, a handful of prisoners attempt a daring escape from Peniche, a castle on the north coast of Portugal for the political dissidents of the regime.
The intimate conflicts of smugglers and vagabonds, along with the struggle of the peasants against the attempts of the bourgeoisie and the State, to take possession of the vacancies they cultivate.
In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter...