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The biography of a retired producer in the first person, with many locations where he lived or worked, plus archive documents illustrating a life story that spans decades of Portuguese film history.

Mattos Lobo's agonizing execution in 1842 shocked the Portuguese Society. The Gabinete de Frenologia from the Escola Médica de Lisboa, required to the justice authorization to decapitate the condemned, in order to study his cranium and determine the degree of his criminality. The idea of regenerating the criminals began to gain strength at that time. Portugal wasn't the first country to abolish the death penalty, but it was one of its pioneers.

CUF became the largest private economic group in the Iberian peninsula, and marked the Industrial and financial history of the 20th century in Portugal from its first years, linked with the government's policies in the 1930's, through the cycle of expansion in the 1960s and ending in the dispersion of the Group after its nationalization in 1975.