The seminarist narration text was extracted and edited from diaries, letters, posts and notes by the Aldeia Nova's former seminarists Fernando Vaz, Mário Rocha Creoulo, Horácio Araújo, José Ribeiro, Eduardo Bento, and Manuel Mendes. It also features an excerpt from the literary work "Happy People in Tears", gently provided by their colleague, the author João de Melo.
Over the course of the southern European dictatorships of the 20th century, access to education was a luxury. For a long time, Catholic seminaries, generally conservative and aligned with the regime, were the only academic path for less privileged young men. This is a story about what remains of the derelict walls of the most progressive seminary in Portugal - the country with the longest dictatorship in Europe.