A weekend in the summer in a country house in Sintra, Portugal. Nicolau, a 14 year-old boy , spends two days in the company of his eldest brother Simon and his friends, all them on their way to the the thirties. The beautiful and reserved Maria do Mar grabs the attention of everyone, but Nicolau is the one whose life will be more disrupted by this unexpected feminine presence. Between his homework and climbing o the trees, stories about a deceased playboy grandfather the origin of the shape of tortellini and seduction games, Nicolau stares at this group of young adults with the bewilderment of someone who doesn’t belong to that world and the certain that nothing will ever be as it was before.