Synopsis

50 years after "April Revolution", 1974. Women, to Arms.! A narrative inspired by female figures who challenged social conventions in the early 70s, in Portugal. Friendship is the link that unites them on this journey through adversity during the colonial war. It's about the fight for freedom and human rights. Follows four women who work in a textile factory, where they end up developing a friendship. At first glance, they are all completely different from each other. Adília (Sílvia Chiola) is an energetic, almost illiterate young woman who decides to stay in Portugal when her boyfriend challenges her to run away, at a time of increasing tension. Deolinda (Madalena Almeida), in turn, believes that education is the path to social evolution and wants to go further. Lurdes (Sara Carinhas) is a politically active and unionized woman who encourages her colleagues to fight for their rights and demand equal pay. Like others, she is against the foreign war, a conflict that is very present in the story. Isabel (Victoria Guerra) is a former high society woman who finds herself "amputated" after her husband's death in the war and by the Estado Novo dictatorship. She can't write a check, doesn't have access to a bank account, and is forced to return to the workforce. In the factory, the four women vent, laugh, cry and together they star in a portrait of Portugal in the early 70s. They are inspired by hundreds of stories of anonymous women that have never been told. Women played a leading role in bringing about the end of the conflict and, ultimately, the fall of the "Estado Novo".