At the beginning of the 60s thousands of Portuguese turned up in France through the underground They were fleeing misery war and repression Left to unscrupulous smugglers they had to cross the Iberian Peninsula tracked by the Portuguese and Spanish police For many the voyage towards France turned into a disaster As a child in a shantytown the author remembers having heard about these terrible odysseys Thirty years later he goes in search of the stories of his childhood and seeks to understand what sparked this unprecedented emigration known as the plebiscite by foot against Salazar Between childhood memories and historical investigation he looks for the images of this exodus the largest in postwar Europe
DirectorJosé Vieira
WriterJosé Vieira
