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.
Elmano Sancho
as Eça de Queiroz
Mafalda Banquart
as Mollie Bidwell
Luísa Cruz
as Mary Bidwell
Rodrigo Santos
as Torradellas
Jorge Pinto
as General Bidwell
Pedro Frias
as Sanchez Morales
António Capelo
as Blas
Joana Carvalho
as D. Antónia
Joaquim Nicolau
as Esteves
João Lagarto
as Andrade Corvo
José Eduardo
as Paco
Ivo Arroja
as Juan
