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The film was inspired by the letters exchanged between two leading Portuguese poets, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, during the exile of the latter between 1957 and 1978. Due to political and other circumstances, Jorge de Sena moved to Brazil and then to the USA, pursuing an academic career. He would never return to his home country. The correspondence between the two poets is a testimony to their quest for freedom during Portugal’s fascist regime. But their letters also offer an insight into the profound affinity between two human beings. Theirs was a friendship that both were determined to sustain, unblemished, until death.