In 1940s Portugal, poor and illiterate, five boys work the Tejo mudflats to exhaustion, making tiles from clay. One refuses to stay trapped in poverty. Their fight revives "the sons of men who were never boys."
Isabel Abreu
Irene
Pedro Almendra
António
Maria João Pinho
Maria do Bote
Luís Barros
Tomás Alves
Joaquim
Santiago André
Gineto