A True and Faithful Account

The young girl Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North Brás is a ruined man a bohemian with a reputation for violence and erratic behaviour Antonias fortune is the first sacrifice made by the young wife Fascinated by the man who humiliates and illtreats her she follows him in a pilgrimage to increasingly barren lands to increasingly less hospitable houses