Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
Alexandre was trapped in the solitude of his apartment when he discovered that Margarida, a beautiful and cold technocrat, had ran away with a rich American to Switzerland, and took his son Vitor with her.
The disastrous attempts of D. Lucas Telmo Midões to achieve in 1981 the independence of the Berlengas islands - lost eight centuries ago, during the conquests of D. Afonso Henriques.
Zéfiro is a film about Lisbon, the last of the Mediterranean cities, condemned to the Atlantic by the vast estuary that separates it from the "other band".