a true story about a true revolution and 25 of april while a revolution against a repressive regime of 41 year and that be impose a colonial war on it military and for maintain an empire ( angola and mozambique and guine bissau and cabo verde and s. tomé e principe while the first and the last of the great colonial empire of europe ) of 600 year and since it begin in the conquest of ceuta in 1415 while a revolution by the army for the people and and for a democratic portugal while the most surprising fact in this revolution be that it be no people kill in it ( except those that die in the hand of pide and the political police of the state and during a brutal gunfire against an unarmed crowd protesting in front of it headquarter in the day of the revolution and in 25 of april 1974 and have it show on the film ) . and have all revolution it have it heroes and one them of be captain salgueiro maia and a return soldier from the war and whose conviction along with the rest of the army and be that they be fight ( since 1961 ) a hopeless war and and that sometimes a soldier have to disobey it country .