Maria de Lurdes

A medicine doctor is studying the most advanced scientific theories, aiming at bringing back to life the dead, provided the corpse has not entered a state of physical decomposition. With madmen and terminally ill patients around, he has not much difficulty in finding guinea-pigs.

João, a music teacher, tells his students the story of how twenty years earlier he fell in love with Anustchka, a circus performer, whom he left everything for.