Best Portuguese science fiction series

A warrior from the XVI century, the first female university student from the XIX century and a nurse from the XXI century, join a secret agency to prevent people to change the Portuguese history by using time-traveling doors

Where and how will we be in 60 years? The next decades will undergo the biggest and fastest transformation ever. In technology, in science, in the environment, in interpersonal relationships. We live in a kind of great accelerator of science, in which the pace of discoveries does not cease to amaze. In the last decades more scientific knowledge accumulated than in all the history of the Humanity. In 2077 this scientific knowledge will have doubled several times.

This three part French TV serial for children (alternate versions exist as a feature, Manoel’s Destinies, and a 4 part Portuguese TV serial, Adventure in Madeira) is the favourite of many devotees of Raúl Ruiz. This is because it ties the enchantment and mystery of Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi and the Brothers Grimm to the filmmaker’s experiments with narrative strategies and what he calls the pentaludic model of storytelling (where characters are thrown dice-like into combinations and situations governed by the play of Chance and Destiny).

Violeta is a young girl in transition from adolescence to adulthood. Suffering for years from a deep depression, she lives with her father, who spends most of his time locked in the attic of their house, in a small village. One night, Violeta has an unusually vivid dream about her father, where he says goodbye to her, whispering the cryptic word "LIRA". That morning, Violeta wakes up to the tragic news that her father was at hospital in a coma, after having jumped off a cliff. Violeta becomes obsessed with finding out what is behind her father's alleged suicide attempt, and the meaning of "LIRA". As she gets deeper and deeper into the Dream World, Violeta will find clues to what happened to her father, uncover ruthless government experiments, develop unimaginable psychic abilities, and come face to face with a mysterious and deadly dimension called the ‘Ether’.

How far can a father go to guarantee a world of happiness to his daughter? On the day when everything changes and the past emerges, a family adrift and its network of unlikely friends will be reunited in Lisbon. A Blue Lisbon, full of undoing knots.