The lonely Jeruza lives in a simple isolated house by the seaside with the siblings Cassandra and Ulisses and the family survives by selling handicrafts for a local store. Her husband, Santiago, is a sailor who has been missing for many years. When the stranger Roque arrives at Jeruza's house late afternoon, he tells her that Santiago was murdered in a bar fight. Jeruza lodges Roque to spend the night and they have a one night stand…
Malgré son enthousiasme, le Capitaine Pirate a beaucoup de mal à se faire passer pour une terreur des mers. Secondé par un équipage aussi peu doué que lui, le Capitaine rêve pourtant de battre ses rivaux, Black Bellamy et Liz Lafaucheuse, en remportant le prestigieux Prix du Pirate de l'Année.Pour le Capitaine et son drôle d'équipage, c'est le début d'une incroyable odyssée qui, des rivages de Blood Island jusqu'aux rues embrumées de Londres, va les conduire d'épreuves en rencontres. S'ils vont faire équipe avec un jeune scientifique du nom de Charles Darwin, ils vont aussi devoir affronter mille dangers et tenter de survivre à la reine Victoria, qui voue une haine absolue aux pirates… En avant pour l'aventure !
After forty years in prison, the evil gravedigger Josefel Zanatas a.k.a. Zé do Caixão is released by the lawyer Lucy Pontes in accordance with Brazilian Laws. He moves to the slums with his followers that worship him, and he seeks out the perfect woman to bear his children while haunted by the ghosts of his victims. The vigilante brothers Captain Osvaldo Pontes and his brother Coronel Claudiomiro from the Military Police chase Zé do Caixão in the slums to kill him and they find a track of tortured and mutilated bodies.
The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the meeting between Mussolini and Hitler in Rome. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her mysterious neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues into night, Loren and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life.