New Beginning

Álvaro and Maria do Carmo lived happily in Angola. He was a successful businessman and she was a mild mannered housewife. They have two children together, Ana and João, who were studying and living their teenage years in Luanda... Until the day the civil war broke out and everything fell apart. Amidst declarations of independence, a wave of violence breaks out and the established peace and order fades away. In July, 1975, the Mendonça family, along with over five hundred thousand people, leave their belongings behind and embark on an air convoy that would become the biggest exodus in the history of the Portuguese people to a homeland that most only knew from photos and dubbed it Metropolis. In Lisbon, Joaquim and Natália, Álvaro’s brother-in-law and sister, take the Mendonça family in their small apartment, where they will try to get their lives back in order. However, over that hot summer of 1975, the integration seemed to be far from easy.

Elenco

Ana Nave Maria do Carmo Mendonça

José Carlos Garcia Álvaro Mendonça

Catarina Wallenstein Ana Maria Mendonça

João Arrais João Mendonça

Fátima Belo Natália Mendonça Cardoso

António Cordeiro Joaquim Cardoso

Joana de Verona Luísa Cardoso

João Jesus Pedro Cardoso

Tomás Alves Gonçalo Cunha Pereira

Sara Salgado Catarina Cunha Pereira

José Mata Afonso Cunha Pereira

Cucha Carvalheiro Cidália Figueiredo