The work concerns a group of young dissidents (mostly university students) who kidnap a man during the Portuguese dictatorship (1933-1974) to put him on trial. The youth accuse the man of being an unofficial member of the PIDE (Salazar's secret state police). They also accuse him of spying on various people and thus being responsible for their arrest, torture, or murder. The accused tries to defend himself. However, as he justifies and whitewashes fascism, he is unable to convince the dissidents of his innocence. The trial leader sentences the alleged informant to death. But just before the dissidents can take the law into their own hands, the tide turns...
BIOGRAPHY Miguel Araújo Oliveira was born in Hamburg in 1979. He is the author of several monographs featuring writers such as John Dos Passos, Günter Grass, and Ödön von Horváth. Ever since the launch of Oliveira’s collection of poetry, Sem Título, he has been considered a major figure in present-day Madeiran literature. A selection of his poems was included in several anthologies of contemporary Portuguese poets. Oliveira has been invited to teach as a professor at several universities in Lisbon.
