The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.
Fernando Cabral Martins
André Gomes
Juliet Berto
Jorge Silva Melo
Manoel de Oliveira
Isabel Ruth
João Perry
Francisco Pinhão Botelho
Leonor Pinhão
Isabel de Castro
Zita Duarte
António Barahona
Joaquim Furtado
Elsa Wallencamp
Osório Mateus
Nuno Vieira de Almeida