A Costa dos Murmúrios plot
The young bride Evita (Batarda) arrives in the tropical coastal town to marry math student Luis, who is doing his military service there. She soon learns that the colonial civil war has turned her fiancé into a bossy, pale imitation of his commander, Forza Leal. When the men go on a warpath, Luis doesn't want Evita to leave her hotel room, but she nevertheless begins to explore the city. She sees the poor side of it and meets journalists who tell her about the atrocities on the part of the army. And she seeks the company of Forza Leal's beautiful, humiliated wife, Helena, nicknamed "Helen of Troy," who tells her more about Luis than she cares to know.