At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State.
Mariana
Nuno
Rodrigo
Estefânia
Gastão
Rosa
Manuel
Mouzinho
José Luciano
Titão
Lencastre
Leitão
Padre Marcos
Alberto
Matos
Adelaide
Lopes
Saraiva
Chapeleiro
Medico (as Duarte de Almeida)