Ana is pregnant when she has to flee Portugal in the 1970s, under the Salazar dictatorship. In France, she is taken in by Mademoiselle Claudine, a libertine model with feminist ideals.
Thirty years later, her daughter Gorete has become a free and independent young woman. But a tragedy will suddenly strike their family, forcing
Gorete to face an unknown past.
Discovering the meaning of the word saudade, "bitter and sweet thorn", the young woman sets out on a quest for her origins and a duty of remembrance. From Buenos Aires to Porto, from tango to fado, she gradually manages to lift the veil on her family's secrets.
A new story is being written. That of men and women with intertwined destinies, mirrors of several generations and the joyful melancholy of an entire people.