Aurélio Monteiro da Costa - Chovia Naquela Noite de Breu

In the midst of World War II, Carlos, a young farmer from Arouca, clandestinely mines tungsten in the surrounding mountains. The prices of the ore then reach speculative values, allowing some to get rich quickly.
Simultaneously, poverty is rampant in Portugal, and the vicissitudes of war increase unemployment and worsen the already miserable living conditions of the population.
Bernardo, a young man from the upper bourgeoisie of Porto, educated in England, meets Carlos, and they become friends and companions in the anti-regime struggle.
Carlos is arrested for his illegal activity and serves a year in prison. Bernardo shows solidarity with him, finding him a lawyer and visiting him in jail.
Salazar schedules elections for November 1945, giving the opposition little more than a month to prepare, which withdraws at the last minute so as not to legitimize the electoral farce. Carlos and Bernardo are arrested. Bernardo is released immediately. Carlos is tortured by the PIDE and sentenced to five years in prison, which he serves in Peniche, under subhuman conditions, not benefiting at that time from Bernardo's solidarity.
After leaving prison, Carlos feels alone. Some relatives had died, others had emigrated. I had no friends, nobody. He then gets a job in Porto at a printing company and that is where the reunion with Bernardo takes place and…