Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP)

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.

The protagonists of this classic are Anabela, in the role of “Eliza Doolitle”, and Carlos Quintas, who plays the demanding professor “Henry Higgins”, at the head of a luxury cast of more than 70 actors, singers, dancers and musicians.

Burlesque history, which summons various references to cinematographic genres, much in vogue in the 50s and 60s, such as comedy, horror film, police, war film, among others. Two detectives and a special agent try to solve a difficult case, but in the end they are "swallowed" by the intrigue itself.