Two soldiers armed to the teeth walk through devastated fields and along tortuous paths until they reach a river. One of them to satiate his hunger and thirst agrees to become blind. Shortly afterwards this unfortunate man is resting under a chestnut with wonderful healing properties. Meanwhile, unexpected events help him to regain his vision. Afterwards he prepares himself to find his colleague. During the 1970's, Trás-os-Montes remained a somewhat inaccessible region, as if it was another country within the country, to be explored and understood. Trás-os-Montes was also the name of a new cinematographic space, hacked out and conquered by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro. It was a film shot in 1974 and premiered in 1976, as a matter of fact, quoted in Veredas, 1975-1977, the film with which João César Monteiro opened new horizons and started a new stage in his career, a voyage through the chimerical world of Portuguese Traditional Tales, adapting to the screen, his vision of the world, of the people and o