Nenhum Olhar

In a village in Alentejo, against a backdrop of severe poverty, the author weaves stories of men and women, hardened by hunger and work, of love, jealousy and violence:the taciturn shepherd who sees his world crumble when the devil tells him that the woman deceives him; old and wise Gabriel, confidant and adviser; the conjoined twins Elias and Moses, whose tender communion is degraded the moment one of them falls in love; or the Devil himself. His characters are universal, as is his hope in the face of difficulty.«... from the second or third sequence onwards we are sure that the inclination is fatal:we are going to hit a limit, a wall, an enigma, the origin of the world and in the final disaster..."